Category: Character Studies

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  • FINDING IT DIFFICULT TO CONNECT TO MY SPIRITUAL FATHER – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    FINDING IT DIFFICULT TO CONNECT TO MY SPIRITUAL FATHER – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    Question: “I have a Spiritual Father, I don’t enjoy listening to his messages or reading his book. I am not just connecting, what can I do?”

    Firstly, the PRIMARY purpose your spiritual father is meant to serve in your life as a mature believer is not to teach you mysteries and algorithms of the cosmological exegesis parallelism.

    He is to BE YOUR COVER AND GUIDANCE (advice). You see all those mysteries and the rest, leave it to your mentors & teachers.

    In my case, what I know is that whenever my spiritual father prays for me, God answers. When I sow a seed to him, I see RAIN! Bishop Oyedepo loves to mention the kingdom principles he learnt from different mentors but rarely will you hear him say I learnt ABC from Baba Adeboye. But he would always say that when Baba laid hands on him, he receives the Spirit of Wisdom. So, as a culture every year, in May, Bishop Oyedepo would invites Pastor Adeboye to lay hands on him and the whole family.

    That’s why if you pick a man whom you have no physical contact with as your spiritual father, you are only playing.

    Your Father gives you SPIRITUAL COVERING & GUIDANCE. He is appointed over you not by what he has or knows but by God’s wisdom just like your earthly father.

    You will respond to your father by SERVICE (Physical- as opportune & Financial) and Honour.

    If your spiritual father is resourceful- has books and messages but you finds it difficult to connect to those materials. Then, you may have to change your approach. Maybe you felt you should listen to his messages and read his book just because he is your father. That’s not bad but where it seems that’s not working. You should approach his materials from the angle of “NEED“.

    Are there areas you need more exposure? Run through his materials and see if you can at least read ONE or listen to ONE. If you can’t find an area of need, then, run through his resources and see if you can find any that will attract you and give you a body of knowledge. Either way should do and gradually, you will enjoy doing so.

  • YOU HAVE ALL YOU NEED – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    YOU HAVE ALL YOU NEED – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    One of my sons said: I thought when I began to tell visions, I will command a crowd. I told him that I thought when we begin to have signs and wonders, we will have a lot of people.

    There’s this pastor around my house. He kept repeating a miracle God did through him. He was saying it in a way like: “can’t you guys in this area see that God is here? Leave your churches and come here!”

    Okay, he didn’t literally say that but that was what he was insinuating. He actually said: “if I were those people, it is this Church that I would be coming to all my life”. You see, even the people that had the miracle didn’t become his members. A pastor friend told me how God used her to heal the mad and other miracles yet even the man that was cured of madness didn’t become a member.

    So, whenever I see someone who said: “he wants to major in calling names and all so that people can believe in his ministry. I know such a person is just kidding and being naive. The “people” you are trying to impress and make you lose focus- ask yourself, does it worth it?

    No one can receive a thing except it is given to him by the Lord. Use the grace God gives you to bless those he sent to you. Your audience needs what you have and what you have is what your audience needs.

    I am not discouraging you against the use and manifestation of the prophetic gifts. If you know me too well, I encourage and impart believers to manifest it even more. But when we talk about ministering, you should have the ability and God will use you in it but I am talking of “majoring”. If you try to major in a dimension but you keep struggling in it, it is simply not your place. Simply put: “I can drive but I am not a professional driver

    In my earlier post, I even state that you can be called a prophet but not flow in the prophetic dimension of calling names and phone numbers. Don’t struggle there or keep forcing it. God doesn’t think like man thinks. You are just a clay. YOU HAVE ALL YOU NEED.

  • Secret of successful marriage – MotherTreasure

    Secret of successful marriage – MotherTreasure

    What do you think a successful Marriage is
    Before anything, let’s see what a successful Marriage is

    If it is when you see people blush over each other

    Wear the same outfit

    Shout a couple of goals on the internet etc.
    Though they could be present they are not the core thing
    As beautiful as those this is, they don’t define a successful Marriage,
    Things
    Let’s see what a successful Marriage looks like

    ✍🏽Successful Marriage is staying happily in marriage, fulfilling purpose together, and walking in unity till old age or till death do you part.

    If any of these three is missing we can’t categorize such a Marriage as a successful one

    Staying Happily in marriage

    Fulfilling purpose together

    And walking in unity till old age or till death do you part

    Those three look very simple to achieve but there is so much work to put in to have those things surface
    These three are core things we should look out for before we conclude that marriage is a success

    So tonight I will be opening your eyes to the secret of a successful Marriage. You need to know that there is no single SUCCESSFUL marriage that happened by accident
    Though achievable you must put in the work.

    Are you married and looking for a way to make it a success?

    Are you a single brother or sister that aspires to a beautiful Marriage?

    Then you must pay full attention
    If your marriage will be a success, it must be founded in God

    ✍🏽Founded in God

    There is nothing good the devil or the flesh will give you
    Genesis 2:18–22:

    Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”…So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; and the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.

    If you follow the devil’s instructions or your desires in choosing it will be a tough one
    It is important to allow God
    You must go to Him in prayers
    You must close your eyes to your self-desires and follow God promptly
    Else you will only be wishing and wishing
    Let God do the finding
    Allow God to give you the prepared one for you
    It usually gives a smooth ride
    2. Preparation

    You must be prepared
    Prepare yourself with knowledge
    You must be equipped with the right knowledge
    Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.

    Proverbs 19:2
    Many people are caught in the web of fallacy
    Imagining the imaginable after watching a Korean movie
    Now let’s see the things that make up a good marriage
    Imagining breakfast in bed and many other irrelevant things
    Equip yourself with the knowledge of what to do and what not to do to have a successful Marriage

    ✍🏽Forgiveness

    1 Peter 4:8: Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.
    If you think those with successful Marriage didn’t offend each other at one point or the other, you will have to think again
    There will be an offense
    You must be able to look past your partner’s mistakes if you will have a successful Marriage
    You will commit error but you must be able to forgive each other
    There will be mistakes
    Forgive should be a gift you are willing to give at all times
    Whether they are sober or not, they deserve to be forgiven
    If you think they are not changing over time, you can forgive and move on
    Though the married can’t just walk away😹
    Forgive your wife
    Forgive your husband
    The other couple you see that appears like their home is Faultless has just learned one thing you didn’t learn, which is FORGIVENESS

    ✍🏻CLEAVE

    Matthew 19:4-6:

    “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said,

    ‘ For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh? So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
    You must learn to CLEAVE
    To cleave means, to become one with your spouse
    If you allow your family member no matter how close come between you, You have uncleaved
    If you allow your mother to come between you and your spouse, you have uncleaved
    Become one in everything
    Your partner first
    How they will feel over an issue first
    What they think first
    If any opinion will be welcomed from outside they it should be someone you both agreed to consult
    What they want first
    Many men are still sucking their Mama’s breast
    They put their mothers over their wives
    If you love your mother so much that you can’t imagine taking any meaningful step in your life without consulting her pls stay unmarried
    Before you mirror your wife’s character with the next-door or woman’s own, mirror yours with her husband’s too😒
    Before you say, didn’t you see how mummy Teresa honor and Respect her husband, check out how daddy Teresa makes his wife his priority🤷🏽‍♀️
    Cleave
    Everything
    Everything
    Every single thing
    Must be done by putting the other person first
    Make friends with your spouse
    Not after you have considered how you and one of your family members you take the dare to your heart will feel, you now drag your spouse along 👼🏽

    ✍🏽Friendship

    Proverbs 17:17: A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

    Be there for them
    It is very important
    Making friends with them makes it easy to forgive and discover who they are
    You will get to know them intimately
    What their views could be on a particular issue
    You get to rob minds together
    Create time to play, gist, and go out together, isn’t that what friends do?
    And before you know it you are 90% on the same page
    Let’s see more points on Thursday as God will be helping us

    Thank you, Jesus, for the light shared tonight

    It shall birth success indeed our lives in Jesus’ name

  • DESIRING THE PROPHETIC –  Pst. Ife ADETONA

    DESIRING THE PROPHETIC – Pst. Ife ADETONA

    ⚠️ you may not like the language of this post, but if you don’t mind, let’s go.

    First, I want you to know that the “prophet’s office” is a very large one. So big that every prophet is distinctive from the others. We can go further to categorize. Some see VISIONS and GIVE WORDS OF KNOWLEDGE & REVELATION as if they are drinking water. If you’re not close to them, you would think maybe they fasted or prayed to enter that realm but not so. It seems to them as natural as a talent just like calling someone gifted in songs. Even if they sleep all night while others keep vigil, when they wake, it is vision or word.

    If five of us enter a room. Those with this ability have already seen ten things in 10 seconds. While you are still trying to scan, they have given words of knowledge and wisdom. Again, I tell you, they didn’t necessarily “train” to be there. A day convert appointed for this role would see more than a 10-year prayerful pastor who is not pre-ordained for this. It is pre-ordination. They only fast, pray, train and live a holy life to keep it fine-tuned. The gift itself came to them by predestination.

    So, it is not all ministers that would be prophets and it is not all prophets that would be calling names and phone numbers. If you struggle to get visions and knowledge or it doesn’t flow naturally as you see in some people, do not force it. Do not blend your ministry or tilt it towards it. Do not think that because God said you’re a prophet, you must MAJOR in that dimension and do not feel inadequate if you are not.

    Your audience is waiting. They were selected right from heaven even before your ministry started. Forget about who or what is in the vogue. God knows what your audience needs and it is not what you think they want (visions). Let those who like visions go for it. Some are meant for what you offer, they will come.

    Look at great Ministers like Sam Adeyemi. Is his church scanty? Is he a prophet? How many times have you seen Pastor Kumuyi or Oyedepo call names or give words to specific people even when their congregation was few? How many words of wisdom/revelation does “prophet” Adeboye has in a 45-minute ministration? Are their ministries not blessed?

    Thank God for prophets who major in seeing visions and calling out people, especially those doing it in the right way.

    I have also not said God won’t use you in this dimension but if God does not ALWAYS or READILY use you in that dimension, don’t force it. Desire it, yes but don’t force it. A fish swims naturally in water even though it can still walk on land. Find your water and flow in it. Your faithfulness to your uniqueness will bring you closer to your desire than ambition.

    Shalom.

  • FORMING NEW HABITS, KILLING BAD HABITS 2 – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    FORMING NEW HABITS, KILLING BAD HABITS 2 – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    In the place of New Year Resolution and goal settings that often fail us
    We are talking about how to CHANGE OUR HABITS
    You can approach things in a better way
    We mentioned various things but tonight, I will emphasize what we can IDENTITY BASED CHANGES
    Let’s say you struggle to read books before now
    Your goal for the new year is TO READ 10 BOOKS

    That approach is called OUTCOME BASED APPROACH
    And then, you begin to make efforts and pursue reading 10 books.
    Who reads BOOKS…a reader.
    But look at it this way
    Are you a READER?
    There is a difference between a person that says…. AM POOR AT READING, I am going to set a goal to read 10 books this year
    And a person who says I AM A READER, and so, I am going to read 10 books
    Nothing changes on the outside until you have changed the person on the inside

    And it all starts with WHO YOU ARE
    And that should start with changing your IDENTITY
    You are not trying to change how you behave but changing you

    Now, once you believe and confess your new identity always, you should begin to provide EVIDENCE for your new identity
    Okay, you are a READER…every day you read even if it’s a page on the principle of 1% change. You are affirming that you are a reader
    So, you must stop saying NEGATIVE IDENTITY
    I Am lazy
    I laugh in the public
    I sleep too much
    I am not living healthy
    I live healthily
    Into new ones
    I am hardworking.
    I control my laughter
    I sleep adequately
    The more your identity is cemented, the better you get in your new nature

    And then, everything you do toward that goal cement your identity.
    To form a new habit, let’s check

    HOW HABITS ARE FORMED IN THE FIRST PLACE

    Let’s talk about HABIT FORMATION
    When you are bored, what do you do?
    psychologists believe in a 4-way process of forming new habits-

    CUE👉🏼CRAVING👉🏼RESPONSE👉🏼REWARD
    Some people play games
    Some people scroll the social media
    Some people watch movies
    Etc

    The next time you got bored, after thinking for a while, you do the same thing
    How did you think it started?
    One day, you got bored CUE
    You were looking for a way out of the boredom CRAVING
    You picked up our phone to play games RESPONSE
    You feel satisfied REWARD

    It has now grown beyond just spending a little time but you can’t wait to escape work and start to play games
    The third time, without thinking, you just do it
    You become addicted!
    There are several habits like that going on around us
    I am supposed to have drank up to two bottles of coke or malt in the just concluded week or at least today

    Whenever I feel stressed and didn’t eat CUE
    I just want to eat something because I wasn’t ready to rest CRAVING
    So, I will drink coke or male RESPONSE
    and feel relieved REWARD

    but because I had ca ough and soft drinks aren’t good for coughs, somehow I went through the week without DRINKING A SOFT DRINK
    I didn’t realize that I had formed a habit of tasking soft drinks without knowing.
    Even though I have the same feelings I used to have
    They didn’t come automatically, you LEARNT them
    Same way, several habits rule our lives
    When you get in from outside, I am sure the first thing you do is cut off your clothes and wear comfortable ones
    When you feel sexually aroused and you watch pornography or masturbate it was a habit you FORMED over time
    No one has to remind your brain, you just found yourself doing it!
    You have formed the habit
    Why?
    How?
    To now unlearn a habit, you can follow the same pattern
    That is the process of HABIT FORMATION

    Let’d break it down
    If I want to form a new habit today…

    CUE makes the cue VISIBLE
    CRAVING makes the craving ATTRACTIVE
    RESPOONSE Make the response EASY
    REWARD make the reward SATISFYING

    I want to start waking up EARLY.
    That’s my goal or my new habit
    How can I make it VISIBLE?
    To attach identity to it, I would just say I AM A SUCCESSFUL PERSON and every successful person wakes up early.

    1. Write it on the wall of my bedroom.
    2. Change my phone password to “early riser”
    3. Tell me every night and morning.

    And many more…
    Making my cue visible makes it possible for me to always remember and see it.
    Once the alarm rings, I SEE IT ON MY PHONE
    I can set activity on my alarm for 55 amand labels it “early riser”

    Step 2, Craving… MAKE IT ATTRACTIVE
    Calling myself a successful person has made it ATTRACTIVE already!
    Meanwhile, I can attach it to something I enjoy doing.
    I have observed that when I wake up, I enjoy going through my phone. It makes my face get lit and cleared.
    So, I told myself one time, when I woke, up I will go through my phone
    Meanwhile, I always snooze my first alarm unless I am fully awake or disturbing someone
    So, before the next alarm, I have risen because my face is now cleared
    That way, I have made waking early attractive to my body
    Once I roll out of the bed, that’s it!

    Step 3: RESPONSE, make it easy.
    I used to hold my urine cos I know once am up even if it was 1hr before my waking time, I can’t get proper sleep again
    Make it easy for yourself to take the first step
    In your case, it could be throwing away your blanket!
    Your own could be removing the pillow
    So, this time, your aim is not to WAKE EARLY but to throw away your blanket at 5:30 am
    Just look for an easy way to start
    Someone wanted to be s reader and so he said “at least do 2minutes”
    If you plan to read your Bible daily. The day you were supposed to miss, just do *2-minutes*.
    Soonest, you will find yourself befriending your Bible more than ever
    You can write it in a book. And marked yourself as a success
    Of you succeeded in waking up. Do something for yourself that looks like a celebration

    Step 4- Make it satisfying.
    Is someone getting me?
    Such a thing will make your mind wants to go for it again and again
    So, ask asking Yourself.

    Step One- HOW CAN I MAKE IT VISIBLE

    step two- HOW CAN I MAKE IT ATTRACTIVE

    Step three- HOW CAN I MAKE IT EASY

    Step four- HOW CAN I MAKE IT SATISFYING

    If you study the process of HABIT FORMATION, it can help you to form and unlearn habits
    Receive grace and help in JESUS’ NAME

    Titus 2:
    11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, note

    12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

    13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ,

    Father we thank you for your word tonight help us to be that e doer, empower your son the Jesus’in Jesus’ mighty name I have prayed

  • FORMING GOOD HABITS, KILLING BAD HABITS – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    FORMING GOOD HABITS, KILLING BAD HABITS – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    In periods like this, what we usually consider is GOAL SETTING for the New Year
    Our topic for TONIGHT is-

    FORMING GOOD HABITS
    KILLING BAD HABITS
    Even though many of us feel bad as a result, but am sure many of us are already giving up on goal setting because the ones we set in the previous years didn’t materialize and we didn’t follow through. Many have decided not to set goals again or to just set hopeless ones
    But tonight, I am going to show you a better way to achieve great goals whether you set one or not.

    Honestly, goal setting is not the problem but our approach to meeting those goals is.
    And in actual sense, if we work on our approach, we may not need to set any goal. Imagine an Athlete who didn’t plan to come first in the race but decided to make certain changes to his habits and routines. He wakes at 5 am every day to work out and exercise till 8 am
    If he continues like that without breaking for a whole year, by the time competition comes, do you think he’s going to come last
    In eating healthily and keeps himself in a good mental condition
    A student who goes to class.
    Study well.
    And revise rightly is not going to fail.That is if he doesn’t come first.
    Not at all
    They are beautiful goal
    What am I saying, I don’t know the goals you have set for the years either in your work life or family or otherwise.
    Do not throw them away
    But I need you to take another sheet and look into YOUR HABITS.

    Habits are the tiny dots and routines that we do almost automatically
    You may not like routines are the bedrock of habits but are a product of your habit either good or bad.
    So, FORMING POSITIVE HABITS will culminate sooner or later in achieving great goals!
    From the time you wake from bed to the hours you spend aimlessly on the phone to what you eat and the movies you watch, they are all HABITS that you live on daily a basis
    If I do not set a goal to have As in all my courses but I do what successful people do daily then, my DISTINCTION is sure

    KILLING BAD HABITS that you have also taken on over time will also culminate into making you a more fulfilling person
    And if I set goals for As and I do what is right, I will also have the right result

    LAWS OF HABIT FORMATION

    1. Respect 1% Changes and celebrate your 1% Result

    So, let’s focus on the process.
    On the HABIT FORMATION
    I know many of us to wish to make a big change all at once.
    You want to lose 20kg!
    But you can make a big difference by adjusting your habits just by 1%
    You want your C-looking results to become A-parallel
    If you would just improve your prayer life by 1% DAILY, your prayer life would have improved by 37% before the year ends
    It is said that if you adjust by 1% daily, you would have a 37% change by the time the year ends
    So, it’s good to look forlfor for ffor adjusters you can make here and there
    In Japan manufacturing companies at the time, made just a little change
    They cleared out every junk and dirt so much that workers don’t have to look for their tools and nothing else but their tools would be in the room. Every other unnecessary thing would be out
    As the result, they delivered a better design.
    Little adjustments like making your bed before you leave the room
    Placing dirt in a waste bin
    Those little things can make you AN OVERALL ORGANIZED PERSON which had being your long-term pursuit
    Returning your shoes, pen, and all to where you picked them from
    Saving 100 a day won’t be a big deal.

    But that’s 700 a week
    Even if it is one of them that you do daily, it will have a culminated effect.
    Like, instead of taking a bike, you woke early and took a cab and then save the money
    Instead of buying two types of meat, you bought one and saved the money for one
    Instead of drinking coke, you drank water
    In all, you saved up 100/per day
    Then, in a year, 36,000
    In a month, what will it be? 3000
    That’s still it much right?
    This is 2023, if you started doing that in the year 2020, you will have how much today?
    Imagine you have a 36k somewhere right now that you don’t need?🙅🏽‍♂️
    You can decide to save up that way or begin to rationalize the example I give but that’s not where I am going
    What I am showing you is How Powerful 1% changes here and there can do for you
    If you adjust in every area of your life just by 1%, and you do it daily. You will become a different person
    In neatness, 1%
    Social interaction, 1%
    Savings, 1%
    Prayer life, 1%
    Chat up 1 member daily….and so on.
    Imagine what you would become before the year ends!
    Now, let’s flip that rule to another side…
    I just explained using it to form a new habit

    What about killing a bad habit

    Many people would tell you big things they want to stop a bad habit but they find it difficult to do.
    Meanwhile, making little adjustments can form a big change in the overall
    Somebody who gets angry on impulse could say- “I WILL SWALLOW MY SALIVA BEFORE I TALK”
    If she does that every time and every day before uttering a word, before the year ends, anger would have subsided big time.
    Imagine someone who says, I have a bad reading habit but I will read a page of a book each day.
    As little as putting your DRESS, SHOES, WATCH, etc by your bed before you sleep every night can help you get to work early every day!
    Do you know how I formed the habit of bathing every night before I sleep?
    I used to have a lot of bumps on my face. My wife told me to watch my face with soap every night.
    To do that, I have to get to the bathroom.
    After some weeks of putting water on my face. I Kuku ma bathe the whole body
    If your kitchen is always untidy and you don’t like it.

    You can start by washing one plate before you go to sleep
    Today, my body calls for it on its own no matter how cold
    Do that every day and tell me what happens after some weeks or months
    Or washing just one plate before you rush out
    Look for tiny things to change or adjust and you will see the bad habit erode away
    And then, CELEBRATE YOUR LITTLE WINS
    Because we don’t see success at all or big success we soon give up
    It means if you putin thee some effort every week, you can always have 4+1
    In 52 weeks, that’s 4+52
    You chat up 70 members this week but only 4 shows up. Celebrate it!
    By the time you got to have 59 members, many things would have worked for you that it will be easy for you to get 95 Members
    Let me tell you some of those things
    If you do it constantly for 10 weeks.

    You would have learned how to convince members FASTER
    And so in
    You would have identified the type you should spend a lot of time with and the ones you should not bother about
    I talked about celebrating your little wins
    On*
    You may not have gotten there but Celebrate the fact that you are doing what YOU WISH TO DO. You are in charge!
    Celebrate that you could wash a plate out of the whole stake. Your kitchen is still messy but yeah, you have done something about it however little.
    But if you was a plate every night before you sleep, soonest, you will find a way to clear them all out as a habit!
    Don’t wait for an hour you will wash all at once and your kitchen would be sparkling.

    Only for it to go messy for another week

    2. IDENTIFY WITH YOUR NEW HABIT

    Seems we will only have two or three laws today.
    I know many of us to find it hard to bathe at night before we sleep.
    But just imagine if bathing at night could add to your beauty by 37%
    I know you would do it
    A man had a bad habit to use his teeth to cut his nails.

    Many won’t accept that it’s a bad habit 🫣
    He is a grown successful man but still does that all the time
    So, in a way to stop the habit
    He asked that a pedicure come to work on his nail.
    He got a pedicure and he saw how beautiful his fingers were through the treatment
    That added to his self-esteem
    And so, he wants to look that way all the time.
    I mean a manicure*
    He started paying attention to not ruining his nails
    Now…if you’re trying to form a new habit, ask yourself, WHO ARE THOSE WITH THIS HABIT?
    And begin to see yourself as one
    DISCIPLINED PEOPLE don’t sleep for 12 hours….you know you have a bad sleeping habit but from today, WHO ARE YOU?
    Organized people always have their space tidied up…begin to see yourself as organized and stopped calling yourself clumsy
    Successful people wash their teeth, at least twice a day, WHO ARE YOU?.
    Stop saying, I AM VERY BAD AT REMEMBERING THINGS OR NAMES. Smart people are not forgetful.

    The new habit you target to form, PUT THE IDENTITY ON.

    The bad habit you are quitting, stop identifying with it
    The Bible talks about a rich young man
    He said he has kept all the commandants since he was young.
    Mathew 19:20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up:
    That’s a habit.

    And that habit pays off in a few years.

    He became a very rich man!
    I thank the Lord for the way this teaching went tonight.

    This is my first time teaching along this line.

    Don’t miss the second part of this teaching, there lies your deliverance, it link is here https://healingnexusblog.com/forming-new-habits-killing-bad-habits-2-pst-ife-adetona/

    I want to believe that you found it impactful
    FATHER, we thank you for your word and enables tonight.

    We receive the grace to apply it to our own lives. And rightly teach it tomorrow for maximum impact in the life of everyone in Jesus’ Name

  • STRATEGY BEFORE ENERGY – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    STRATEGY BEFORE ENERGY – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    I once saw an animal documentary of a cheetan which has refused to leave my mind.

    A cheetan as we know is the fastest mammal on earth. It can outrun anything with four or two legs.

    This cheetan went out hunting one day. With great reliance on his speed. He spotted his prey afar off and gave a hot chase. He ran so hard but lost his prey. He was left breathing heavily and hungry. The next time he was out to pick on another animal when he saw the tiger, 🐅 a master hunter lurking around to hunt as well. He quickly hide so that there won’t be a clash.

    As he hide, he had his eyes set on the tiger. He saw that the tiger had identified a small group of an animal passing by that he wanted to pick just one prey from. But the tiger did not give a chase. It only laid quietly in wait for the animals to take that path. As soon they arrived, he leaped on one and that was it. Soft job! Psumptious meal!

    The cheetan picked his lesson. He left the place for another hunting ground. This time, he didn’t chase but waited patiently. But he missed it in one area. The animals spotted him and fled. The problem was that, he didn’t know that he must lie behind a tall grass and not just anywhere. Well, he missed a meal but another lesson was learnt. Soonest, he became a master in the act! No more empty chases.

    Another time, he was faced with a herd of goat. They were on the move and they were in their hundreds. There was no tall grases to hid and so the cheetan went by his old method- “hot chase”. Out of the over 100 prey before him, he couldn’t even hunt any. As it was chasing one from behind, it would mingle and it would loose their sight. It will pick on another one and lose that again.

    But one day, he saw a hyena attempting to hunt an herd as well. The hyena is one slow animal but a master hunter. The only I have seen that took on fight with lions. They can even attack, kill and eat a lion cub.

    Ironically, the hyena didn’t chase from behind. He faced the herd from the direction they were running to. Locked it’s eyes on its victim and started running towards it. You know when such happens, the animal in question has to keep running. If it runs to the front, it would be eaten and it can’t go backwards. It was left with one choice: to run sideways. That way, the hyena isolated and hunted it.

    Guess what? The cheetan did the same and it was a far easier job.

    What Moral did you learn from the story?

    I go first: STRATEGY better than ENERGY

  • SETTING SPIRITUAL GOALS – Pst. Ife ADETONA

    SETTING SPIRITUAL GOALS – Pst. Ife ADETONA

    I believe we are already setting out goals for the year
    And it should be
    And one important of these goals is surely about our SPIRITUAL LIFE
    The SPIRITUAL LIFE of a man is the most important area of His life
    It comes first
    Because, the spiritual controls the natural
    But if you’re strong spiritually, you’re also strong in other areas of your life
    If you’re weak spiritually, you’re surely weak in other areas
    Let’s start like this-Specific Spiritual Areas

    Many have been experiencing rising and falling. But tonight I am going to show you how to be spiritually healthy all through the year and beyond
    I won’t be teaching you theory tonight but how to practically achieve it

    +Prayer

    +Study of the word

    +Soul Winning/Discipleship

    PRAYER

    The Bible says, MAN OUGHT TO ALWAYS PRAY AND NOT TO FAINT
    Luke 18
    1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that *men ought always to pray, and not to faint;*

    How can you achieve a burning prayer life?
    You will realize that when you were on campus, your prayer life and overall spiritual life was in a good shape
    But the moment you stepped out, it was tilting
    But immediately you leave that circle and stay alone, it comes crashing
    When you pray in groups or being challenged by friends and colleagues, it makes as difference
    The reason is so simple- GROUP PRAYERS HELP OUR PRAYER LIFE
    Or even when you’re in school
    The question is now, HOW CAN I REIGNITE my prayer altar despite not being in school

    Daily 1 hour prayer

    SADOZ ministry has a long list of prayer system. You can choose to be part of some or all
    All you have to do is to join the Telegram channel t.me/sadozite then, begin to pray in tongues as you hear others pray.
    Everyday, we pray in group in the Holy Ghost between the hour of 6am to 7am. We call it TRAVAILING.
    If you can’t pray in tongues, chat this number now. Just tell her+ “I want to pray in tongues”- wa.me/2348165574738
    You can even be preparing for work and put it on!
    What some of us do is to join everyday but we participate in the prayer for a number of days.
    But on weekends, I will not just put my phone on but actively participate
    Like…if I am always preparing for work, I can join and put my phone on 🔊 speaker.
    Someone like me do 7days except in few times when I couldn’t join fully
    Some pray for 3days or more or less
    If you have not being part, join today
    Tell me, you can’t have that going on everyday of the week and be dull in your prayer life

    We also have the Monday Vigil where you pray for atleast one hour between the hour of 10pm and 3am.
    You pray with the prayer manual SADOZ IS OURS
    You need this kind of schedule to keep your prayer life up and going!
    We have other channels- which are the Wednesday Fasting & Prayer with the Prayer Manual.

    And Friday fasting and prayer and we pray individually by praying in the Holy Ghost
    You build it on disicpline and perseverance
    Prayer fervency doesn’t come cheap
    Eph 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
    Start today by joining the morning schedule even if that’s the only thing you can do for now

    STUDY OF THE WORD

    The second aspect of your spiritual life you don’t want to joke with is THE WORD
    The word is a lifetime treasure that we must keep looking into on a daily basis
    To make a difference in the way you approach your Bible this year, I will give you three keys
    You don’t have to be a pastor to take it seriously, you just have to love your life enough
    Act 6:4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

    +read all the time.

    +Study with a guide

    +Teach others

    If you have a Bible app on your phone, raise your hand?
    If you used to press phone in the toilet, raise your hand?
    Why don’t you read the Bible on your phone instead of scrolling through Facebook in the toilet?
    My own name is ADETONA IFE DAMOLA
    What’s your name pls?
    A- Amos
    D- Daniel
    E- Ezra
    T- Timothy
    O- Obadiah
    N- Nahum
    A- Abraham

    use your name to form books of the Bible
    Then, I start with the book of Amos and read atleast one chapter a day from my phone or my hardcopy Bible
    After getting through with Amos, I move to Daniel and then Ezra and so on
    As I finish, I tick it
    You’ll realize that Abraham is not a book of the Bible but the character is dominant in the Book of Genesis. That means I will read the book of Genesis

    A- Amos ✅
    D- Daniel ✅
    E- Ezra ✅
    T- Timothy ✅
    O- Obadiah ✅
    N- Nahum ✅
    A- Abraham

    When I say read your Bible.
    You don’t have to study in this case
    Get an understandable translation and not KJV for ease comprehension
    Just read as if you’re reading a Novel. Do this for one month and your spiritual life won’t be the same
    I said I will give you three 🔑
    You can read from your phone in the bank, toilet, lecture hall, or anywhere at any time.You can even use audio to read so as to cover more chapters.

    The second way is to study with a GUIDE
    It has a positive deposit in your spiritual life
    It is shared on the group every day
    The daily communion is a good guide!
    But do you want to know the best way to be good at the word?
    Is to be a TEACHER of the word!
    The Bible stipulates that one of the qualities of a servant of God is BEING ABLE TO TEACH
    Nothing makes you Responsible like a Responsibility
    2Ti 2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient
    The Bible also says teachers of the word should be accorded double honour

    Research says you will only remember 20% of what you are taught but will remember 80% of what you teach to others.
    1Ti 5:17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
    In fact, if I were to teach this again this time next year, there is a tendency that it won’t sound familiar to you

    That means, just as you enjoy tonight study and you’re making plans to implement them, in a short period of time, you will forget 80% of it
    So, the best way to remember and to spend time with the word is to be a teacher yourself
    And that is what SADOZ is all about
    For instance, if you join the leadership of SADOZ
    You will be expected to review the Daily Communion before you teach it on the group on a daily basis
    That way, you are exposed to the word TWICE
    And then, you will teach it
    and if you also go through the Bible Study before teaching it, you have a double advantage
    That is because they will likely remember in the exam hall if they come across questions they treated at the tutorial
    You will realize that those who take fellow students in tutorial classes on campus perform better than the rest.

    Being a leader in this ministry gives you the opportunity to reach out to souls with ease. It avails you the opportunity to work for God, and you definitely reap from the blessings attached to it.🥳🥳
    You’d be glad you did

    Click the link below if you’re interested :
    WA.me/2348106522911

    Meanwhile, those who heard it may not remember
    It doesn’t take a lot of time to go through your DC before you sleep.
    I want to enjoin Koinonia Leaders to handle the work differently this year for a maximum effect and result in their life.
    If you are a new leader, it may take you up to 35 minutes but a leader who has been consistent for 4 weeks will have a good grasp within 15 minutes.

    And don’t go to your group to slice the commentary into the group but engage the members in contributing and explaining to them.
    If you can formulate your own STUDY GUIDE, it will be very easy for you!
    Also, take time to go through the Bible Study before teaching it.
    If you’re consistent, you will have a good personal study in under 30-minutes and give a spirit-filled teaching
    Some of us here can agree with me

    Let’s do it right and it will become easier as we go on
    And you have more than 30-minutes to spare all through the day. Just twice a week.
    It is more tedious to do copy n paste while trying to avoid some words compared to the you prepare yourself

    Let’s PRAY
    If you’re very busy at work or school, divide the time.
    FATHER IN JESUS NAME.
    We receive grace to put all to use in Jesus Name

  • How to gain Happiness in Relationship/Marriage – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    How to gain Happiness in Relationship/Marriage – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    Husband, (no matter what or her shortcoming) love your wife sacrificially as Christ loves the Church to the point that He died for her.

    Wife, Respect your husband, irrespective of whatever, even if you pay the bills. Call him Lord, deliberately use “Ẹ” for him at times. Emulate Sarah, your mother who callled her husband “my Lord”.

    Side note- this is for you, if you are a child of God and you marry a child of God.

  • New Year Message by Pastor Ife

    New Year Message by Pastor Ife

    Ezekiel 21:271 will overturn, overturn, it and it shall be no morew, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.

    Happy New Year to you. Glory to the Almighty God for ushering us into the New Year. The year 2023 is a highly prophetic year for the SADOZ family. It is the 9th Year of the Sons and Daughters of Zion Ministry. Figure 9 is three in three places. That means, the year 2023 shall be unto us restoration upon restoration, recovery upon recovery, possessions upon possessions.

    Number 9 symbolizes divine completeness and finality. Christ died at hour nine of the day to make way of salvation open to everyone. Every good word of God spoken concerning your life in which process has long started shall be finalized this year. You will experience a total victory. You will have a total recovery. You will be settled all round. The Lord shall overturn, overturn, overturn and overturn until what is yours fully come to you. And you will not loose anything or anybody.

    It is the womb year. In this 9th year, wombs shall be opened. There shall also be delivery of children, fruits, projects and dreams. I see career and academic connections. I see movement into overseas. I see people settling in their promise land. There is a greater wave of marital settlement for all.

    Number 9 is the number of the Holy Spirit. It is the number of spiritual dimensions. There are nine fruit of the Spirit and there are nine gifts of the Holy Spirit. To us, God has said that it is our year of SUPERNATURAL ENCOUNTERS. It is a year where we shall move by the wind of Spirit. Sadozites would be unfathomable. We shall enjoy divine favour all round. We shall leap forward supernaturally.

    Cornelius had the revelation to invite Apostle Paul in the ninth hour. There shall be mysterious supernatural encounters, visions and revival among Sadozites at our meetings both online and physically. That supernatural encounter of Cornelius led the Gentiles to the light of the gospel and a massive manifestation of the Spirit. In this year, SADOZ will attract multitudes by the manifestation of the Spirit. Her people shall come from the North, South, East and West and they shall gather on the mount of the Lord at the Great Zion City and across our meeting points both online and onground. There shall be a massive expansion for individuals, families, businesses and the SADOZ Family. It shall be a year of great impact, wisdom, stability and multitudes.

    Year 2023 Slogan

    Caller: Year 2023

    Answer: Our Year of Supernatural Encounters

    Caller: Year 2023

    Answer: My Year of Supernatural Encounters

    Caller: Year 2023

    Answer: Your Year of Supernatural Encounters

    Name the Year in one statement. For instance: my year of expansion in the comment box