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Category: Pastor Ife

Pst Ife is the President of the Sons And Daughters Of Zion [SADOZ] Global Harvest Ministry. He is a Pastor, A poet, A writer and a Father to many generation.

  • Understanding the Book of Roman 7

    Understanding the Book of Roman 7

    “So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God.” (Romans 7:4 NLT)

    This is it; a believer and unbeliever are in the examination hall. The law says, “thou shall not cheat.” If an unbeliever refuses to cheat, he is not cheating because he doesn’t want to violate the law but when a believer refuses to cheat, it is because he is a believer and not because of the law. The law has lost its power over him. He is dead to the law and by the Spirit of grace, he CAN produce good deeds. He CAN refuse not to cheat. Take note the word “can.” It talks of an ability which may or may not be put into an actuality.
    The Scripture doesn’t say that a believer cannot sin, it says a believer will not sin. It doesn’t say a believer will surely produce good deeds but says he can conveniently live righteously. Being a believer doesn’t mean that you cannot sin anymore but it means you can avoid sin. The power and ability is in us! Those who are under the law don’t have that ability. They struggle and end up falling into sin.

    That you are a believer doesn’t mean that if you commit sin, it should be called another name. There are preachers giving sin different names these days. They will be like: one is believers’ sin, the other is unbelievers’ sin. Some would say a believers’ sin is called weakness. It is like calling a pig a beautiful pig.

    To every believer struggling with sin, I want you to know that it is an insult to your personality in Christ. The ability not to commit that sin is in you. It is called “the sanctifying grace.” That ability to overcome is in you. Joseph had no law but was able to flee fornication. God doesn’t want you avoid sin just because there is a law prohibiting it, he wants you to avoid sin because there is a power at work in you. This power was released into you by the SAVING GRACE of Christ.
    Go in this might in Jesus Name.

    One simple way to understand the Scripture is to know what God CAN say and what God CANNOT say. There are some passages that people use today to justify pre-marital sex. Even when someone quotes such to you and you don’t actually understand what it says, one thing you must have in mind is that God CANNOT permit fornication. That you don’t understand what that Scripture truly mean doesn’t mean you should give such devilish interpretation a second thought. And patiently wait till the time you will understand that scripture. It may take years. Yes, there are passages I didn’t understand until many years after I first came across them. I didn’t understand them but I didn’t give in to any form of misunderstanding.

    God CANNOT say that a believer who gives himself to a sinful life will make heaven. God CANNOT say that when you continue in sin, the sin doesn’t affect you because you are a spirit. God CANNOT say that once you are once saved, you are unconditionally and forever saved. Salvation doesn’t remove your right of choice. It only emboldens your right for good choice. You can choose either to be controlled by the Spirit which will lead to eternal life or yield your body to sin which will lead to eternal death.

    Another rule of understanding the Scriptures is to explain a Scripture in the light of another Scripture. Never build or accept a heresy inferred from few verses of the Scripture. God is consistent. You may not understand what those verses are saying today but wait, wait till the time you will get a balanced view and do not settle for a distorted view.

    The book of Romans established that our immortality and eternal salvation is a hope. We don’t have it already; we are still hoping to have it. There is something about faith, you must believe that you have it already before you will have it. So, if we are to approach immortality from the angle of faith, it means, we already have it before we will have it.

    “We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it. But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait pa­tiently and CONFIDENTLY.)” (Romans 8:24-25 NLT)
    From my first year in the University, I was already seeing myself as a graduate even though I was yet to be but I was sure that I would graduate. Not by my own effort but the power of God at work in me. But does it mean that I was sleeping and failing my exams? No! I read and did my part.
    Works do not make us righteous but righteousness make us work.

  • Understanding the Book of Roman 2

    Understanding the Book of Roman 2

    Salvation is very easy to get but very difficult to lose. God made it so. It is just like a studentship admission, which is quite easy to get but very difficult to lose. Note that, it is difficult, but not impossible to lose. All through my days in school, I don’t know of any person who was sent packing from the school but there were people who were expelled. That I don’t know them doesn’t mean that they were not.
    Kenneth Hagin told of how some people connected some scriptures and arrived at the conclusion that, ‘since Christ died for all, even unbelievers won’t go to hell but heaven.’I watched a man on twitter yesterday who claimed that the Jebusites are actually the Ijebus (a sub group among the Yorubas in Nigeria) and the city of Jerusalem was actually Ijebu Isale. (Isale means valley in Yoruba language). He bragged that he read the Bible in Hebrew and Greek so, he knew what he was saying. I was shocked when I saw people who cannot think for themselves praising him. There is no language in this world that has not undergone significant and massive changes. Even Shakespearean English which is just a few hundred years old has been completely changed. How come “isale” a Yoruba word thousands of years ago is still written the same way now? Let me add that, the speaker was one of those who are opposed to paying of tithes and many believers fall victim. They are simply blasphemous. But someone has rightly said if you give people sand, they will still say, ‘I am blessed.’Back to the book of Romans, “He will give eternal life to those who KEEP on doing what is good, seeking after the glory and honor and immortality that God offers.” (Romans 2:7 NLT)There is a point of believing and a point of ‘KEEP on DOING’. The two are important and here, it emphasizes the ‘KEEP on DOING’. That is holy living. Those who keep on living holy are the ones who will gain immortality. Immortality simply means eternal salvation. It refers to when we will be raptured. Don’t let anyone bamboozle you with grammar. Immorality or eternal salvation is when will be RAPTURED. Then, we cannot die again and we will live forever (eternally). Note that the Scripture says: it is to be gained not already gained.If am feeling sick and I say, I am healed by faith. It does not mean that, I have it but I will have it. So, I am immortal by faith and will have it when Christ comes but if I refused to KEEP on DOING, I will lose it. Action follows faith. If you think that I’m wrong, believe that you already passed your exams but refuse to read for it.

  • GET LAZY

    GET LAZY

    One of the ways to bring yourself closer to your destiny is to make yourself lazy. How do I mean?

    When a man is full of activities, he often feels that he’s very busy. If money were mere papers, all of us would be very rich. We will just be carrying papers around but when you get rid of those papers, you will know what you really worth.

    So, making yourself lazy is getting rid of those activities that don’t add significantly to your purpose but occupy you. Those things have gradually become addictions or obsessions. It could be strolling through the status of all the enemies and friends on your contact list. It could be wandering up and down Facebook screens or crawling all over Instagram. It could be dripping on YouTube back to back. It could even be gallivanting with friends, sniffing novels, bathing in movies or sleeping over long hours phone calls with someone. All of these things will definitely reduce the amount of energy you are pumping into what is more important to you which is your purpose. It could even be cumbersome and popular religious activities. Yes, it could be spreading mats over football matches. Some of us really need weight loss. I mean, shedding away some friends! Some of us need to uninstall those games. Some need to disconnect their TVs or throw away the remotes and decoders.

    I’m not saying you should stop all of these but you have to totally do away with some things. Don’t preach moderacy to yourself over what has already become an obsession, throw it out outrightly.

    When you free yourself of all these excess luggage, you will suddenly become less busy, bored and lazy. At that moment, you will be asking yourself “what can I do?” “How can I get busy?” When you ask yourself this over and over, you will start making meaningful meanings in life. You will be more fulfilled! RECEIVE Grace to act now!

    Ife Adetona
    SADOZ President W/W

    ©2021

  • PASTOR’S DIARY: MUSIC MINISTRY

    PASTOR’S DIARY: MUSIC MINISTRY

    I made a post of late where I asked a harmless and sincere question about “talk-singing”. It seems rampant these days that I really felt I was the odd one. I actually told myself: “if people didn’t enjoy it, why is it common? Ife, you are the odd one here.” But people’s comments revealed that many share the same sentiment. We can safely say, 70% of any audience do not enjoy it. And that’s big!

    The aim was never to gaslight any person, people or ministry. Anyone could see that. My opinion is mine, it’s not a rule or a verdict on any ministry. Likewise, the opinions of people that commented underneath. Thus far, those opinions are both genuine and sincere.Every profession must get feedbacks from those it serves in other to improve. That’s why mobile apps chase us around for ratings and comments.If constructive criticism did not build us, what will?Music switches a person to an aura, atmosphere and mood both physically and spiritually. Anything unmusical that comes in breaks that mood and connection, no matter how good be it the word, exhortation, prayer, prophecy and what have you.

    This is my counsel. And again, it’s not a law. After all, I don’t know much:

    If a person gives you 15-45 minutes of his platform then he wasn’t expecting you to do any other thing than to sing exclusively not exhorting or storytelling. He would call a pastor if he needed that. If the time is given in excess, then you can tactically infuse other properties to fill it up. Remember, I said tactically.We can’t also rule out the fact that people could be led or given dimensions of ministry. However, most of what we see in many fora today is either an abuse, an excess or a misuse.

    I hope these few guides would help:

    1. 1. If you want to talk (exhort or tell stories), tell people to take their seats and talk exclusively. Once you start singing, sing exclusively.
    2. 2. If you’re to lead people into prayers, there’s a way the music should go. I have enjoyed a few of them. Lead them into prayer songs exclusively. Don’t break regular songs with prayers and vice versa.
    3. 3. If you are to give words of prophecy, master the timing and the style of music. Don’t take high praise and break it with “the Lord says” or “there’s somebody here” while begging your back-up and drummers to lower the sound so people could hear. Be “stylish” with the way you handle it. I mean, be professional. Professional thinks like their customers/audience. They ask: “if am the one in the congregation, how will I love this session to go?”

    Above all, you are first a music minister. Sorry about that, I may be wrong. But when people see your image on a handbill, what should first come to their minds: a prophet, an exhorter or a music minister?Think about it.

  • Pastor’s_Diary: When to say GOD SAYS 3

    Pastor’s_Diary: When to say GOD SAYS 3

    PASTORS_DIARY When To Say God Says, Part III

    At last, the third and likely the last of the series. In the first part, I listed “when not to say, God, says” and in the second, I listed “when to say, God, says”. Glory to God for the impact both editions had. I promised that in this third edition, we would examine “how to deliver prophetic messages”. This is a very slippery path where understanding is highly required.

    • Never Inject Fear-
      There was a day, one of our leaders sent a voice note to me. Someone had seen a vision about our ministry. He was crying and doing all sorts before he could deliver his message. I discarded the whole of it- both his tears and the fears he was trying to inject and none of what he said ever happened. Don’t get emotional with the message. Don’t threaten people. Don’t make them fearful. The Bible says when God speaks, He will speak peace (Ps85:8). Anything short of that is either an exaggeration or a lie.
    • Best to say what you saw in all simplicity.
      Has God shown you a vision? At times, all you are required to do is to tell the person what you have seen. It holds more meaning to them than it means to you. You must have heard Prophets said something like, “I saw doughnuts, what does it mean”. The prophet didn’t know what it meant but he knew what he saw and he only said that. The person may say, that’s what she sells or that she dreamt of being fed doughnuts in the dream. Where you are not given interpretation, just say what you saw and let them explain.
    • Best say it as you received it.
      You must have seen prophets ministering to someone and say, I hear “Lagos”. It is the person that will explain what the implication of Lagos is to them. If you don’t receive beyond the word, don’t dig, just simply tell them. At times, you may see and also receive a simple meaning (pointer). Don’t try to make it look complicated, just state the simple meaning.
    • Best Avoid “God says” when it’s just an impression:
      an impression is the lowest form of prophetic revelation yet very powerful but it could be wrong at least 2 out of 10 times. So, when you feel or something is impressed upon your heart or you perceived or sense. Simply tell the person: I feel, I perceive, it occurs to me that…..don’t go about saying God says
    • Best say “God Says”: you know the prophetic can be very dicey. At times what is required of you is to emphasize, “God says”. I have ministered before and told people, ” I can tell you this without saying, “God says” but God wants me to add it”.At this point, you may be wondering how to know which you are to say or do. You may think you could ask God or the Holy Spirit but that can make you further confused. We grow in this thing by knowledge and use. The Bible says mature men have trained their senses to discern. That is, you will just know what to do as soon as the prophetic lands. There’s a stage where God leads you and another stage where God sends you. That’s what I’m talking about. You just know what to do and when and how at this stage.
    • Best Pray or just give the message:
      you know at times, you don’t need to say you saw something or that you heard anything. You just said it in prayer or give the warning. This shows maturity. I do this for those who love revelations. Once I finish praying and they ask “what did you see?”, I tell them to pick it out from the prayers I just made. At times, I give the warning. And when they ask about what I saw or heard, I tell them to just take heed to the warnings or instruction.
    • Don’t interpret from your standpoint:
      There was a prophet who told the father of a young man not to bother to send his son to school because he was going to become a mechanic. The father sent his son to school anyway. It was when he graduated as a Mechanical Engineer that they realised the prophet saw well but interpreted wrongly. Many make mistakes at the point of deriving meanings. And that’s the essence of knowledge and experience.
    • If you refused to grow, you will be mixing up meanings and interpretation. Again growth comes from knowledge & use. We grow out of prophetic mistakes. All of us, at one point or the other, had missed it.

    There are more things I wish to say which couldn’t be contained in this article and I wish to end this series. However, I have a BONUS for you. We have over 10 distinctive lectures in our School of the Prophetic. I will be releasing one of it which directly addressed how to get correct meanings, interpret and communicate them. Go to our Telegram channel via t.me/sadozite you will see “KBI-SOTP-RIM I” RIM means Revelation, Interpretation and Ministering. Please be informed that it will only be available for 2days: today, Sunday & Monday. We don’t usually do this but wanted you to have balanced knowledge. I hope you take advantage of it.

    Heb 5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

  • STRUGGLES OF HUSBAND

    STRUGGLES OF HUSBAND

    STRUGGLES_OF_HUSBANDS

    Ife Adetona
    ©June, 20, 2021

    TIME :
    Ask any serious man, he is always accused by his wife that he doesn’t have time for her. Most especially when the man doesn’t work from home. Even those that work from home receive the same accusation. The man is left to wonder that “if he doesn’t make money, is it not the wife that will first complain?”

    A. Guilty as charged
    Men are guilty of not spending quantity time with their family. I learnt from Brian Tracy that the time a man spends at work is measured in quality but the time spent at home should be measured in quantity. This, I found very difficult to understand and I am yet to fully get it but I’m improving.

    Three activities matter to a man: working, meaningful discussion, a little leisure spent on hobbies or the kind of fun he loves. And so, a man is pissed with just sitting with his wife looking at each other’s eyes or chatting away thus, he picks his phone to scroll the internet.

    B. Your wife is not a pet.
    You rub the head of a pet dog on your way out in the morning. When you arrive, it waggles its tail at you and you briefly caress it. You give it food and anytime you are free, you do it favour of spending a little time with it. You make it sit and watch you read the newspaper on your rocking chair. You do all these to a pet and it will love you. Do that for your wife, she will bite you.

    She’s your companion, she wants you to talk or listen to her talk. She wants you in her own time, not just at your own time.

    C. Stop asking
    What have I gained with this time? Or how much has it put in my pocket? Stop saying, “I would know how much have made if I spend the same time at my shop”. You gain a lot when you gist with your wife or partner. You gain her heart. You make her joyful and proud. Do that and watch her turned into an angel, unlike the witch you had believed she was.
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    C. When accused .
    Probably, the time a man is accused of ignoring her wife or partner is the most painful because of course, most of what he does is for her sake. However, that is the time you need to take a deep breath and apologize then try to make up. Don’t give excuses. Don’t say: “should I leave my work ni?” Don’t say, “won’t I rest after a very busy day?” Please, don’t ever say that you expected her to be understanding. Any wife who claims she’s understanding is faking and enduring it. That moment she’s accusing you is her breaking point, ignore her and she will be depressed. Behind her fierce anger and accusation is a cool-headed motherly hearted woman. Dissolve the shell with soft words and you will see that the food that will await you in the evening will be amazingly good.

    D. Make the little time count.
    Check on her every time you’re at work.Drop SMS or chat. Gist even when you are away. Eulogize her on your social media status. Always comment on the food before she asked if you enjoyed it. Comment even before you commence eating. Say, thank you for the food. Also, after sex, thank her.

    E. Listen to her all the time you’re listening.
    Listening halfway while working or busy with your phone is as good as ignoring her. Even if she disturbs your work, listen to her and it would worth it. If my wife interrupts my work and I ignore her, I usually lose concentration and feel guilty but when I listen attentively, she does free me after few minutes and I enjoy the other part of the work. The truth is, the busier and engaged you are, the more she loves and misses you. The idler you are, the more she’s bored around you. So, after a long day, create her own time and give it to her. Never allow her to get used to talking to outsiders. Be her best friend. Give her a listening ear. Any wife or fiancee that has any other best friend is not enjoying the marriage or relationship.
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    F. Public Holidays
    Public holidays often come as gifts to the civil servants. You can’t be busy all the time. There are certain days and hours you are less busy. That time often comes after a long hard-working time. In that period, let her enjoy you. Keep your phone away and do things together. Do this not just because of her but because of yourself.

    G. Get her busy not with house chores.
    You will never enjoy the best of your wife until she doesn’t have to do the house chores or cook fresh meals every day. Three house chores my wife doesn’t do: washing/ironing of clothes, washing of plates & sweeping. I hope to continue shrinking her house chores until she has almost nothing left. This is not expensive to achieve, just make a move. Lend her a helping hand and stay around the kitchen sometimes when she cooks. As you become more comfortable, get the work reduced. Let her get busy with purpose-driven activities and imparts. You will realize that the accusation of “not enough time” will drop from 100 to 10 immediately. Wives that stays at home all day, complain the most. Especially if she does nothing except house chores. My apology.

    1. SEX
      Sex is the second area a man struggles with the most.
      The problem associated with sex varies from family to family. To a man, it is that his wife doesn’t like sex while he loves it, to another, the wife likes sex but he doesn’t like it. And to another, he is fed up that he is unable to satisfy his wife most of the time or even all the time. Many women had never reached orgasm all their lives despite spending years in the marriage. To another, his wife doesn’t add icing to the sex to make it more enjoyable. The most healthy sex life in marriage is at least every other day or 3-4 times a week.

    These struggles are real and heart borne. Meet with a counsellor, most especially a sex therapist as a couple or go to YouTube. You will learn a lot from how to last long to giving your wife an orgasm. Please, don’t take drugs and do not watch pornography. Porns doesn’t teach sex, it only acts what sex is not. And please, you have no business researching sex if you are not married.

    But wait o. Why does it seem like this piece is meant for mother’s day? Actually, when men learn this, they have more rest of mind and leave longer.

    Happy Babas day

  • Pastors_Diary: WHEN TO SAY “GOD SAYS” II

    Pastors_Diary: WHEN TO SAY “GOD SAYS” II

    In the second part of this article. Our focus would be “When to say, God, says”. But let’s start by highlighting the things we said about WHEN NOT TO SAY, GOD, SAYS:

    “`1. When you require counsel from your spiritual father.

    1. When speaking to the elderly
    2. When you are not sure
    3. When details are required
    4. When lying
    5. When presiding
    6. When it’s too much
    7. When spitting others.“`

    Let’s move on to ” WHEN TO SAY, GOD SAYS”.

    1. When giving prophecy:
      Talking about prophecy, I’m talking about forth-telling not foretelling or what have you. When you are giving prophecy in 1st person singular, you’re expected to start with ” thus saith the Lord”.
    2. When Necessary:
      Like I explained in the first part, certain things require you to tell certain people emphatically that it was as God says. For instance, in choosing a life partner or being called into the ministry. Meanwhile, it is not everyone you need to tell “God says” in those cases thus, the reason I wrote “certain” people.
    3. When Commanded:
      There are times when God particularly commands people to emphasize that He is the sole source of the information or statement. Jonah for instance, emphatically told the people that “God said” and it led to genuine repentance.
    4. When it’s an instruction.
      Sounds like the preceding point but it’s not the same. There are times God gives instructions that you must always say, “God says” every time you talk about certain things. This helps to stir the faith of people. Kenneth Hagin said that God told him to always tell people that he saw Jesus and that Jesus touched his palm with the unction to heal. For as long as he said that, God assured him that healing would occur. Many must have heard me read the story of the woman with the issue of blood with the notion that God said that anytime I read from that story to the people, healing is certain. God instructed me to always say it to people. Such instructions are not to be joked with but you are required to stay within the scope.
    5. When it’s exceptionally critical.
      This appeals to our discretion. God may not have commanded or instructed you but you know that unless you tell them that it was God God that told you, the information will not achieve its aim then, wisdom requires you inject “God says”. Meanwhile, take note not to over-emphasize it. At times, It is just good to say “God says” in the first line only and not repeatedly during the speech. Also, when adding details from your thought, do not add “God says”. Learn from Agabus . He knew when to say God said and when to keep shut. When God showed him something about Paul, he only said and demonstrated what he saw with the prefix- “thus saith the Lord”. He didn’t make the mistake of insinuating that God asked him to warn Paul against travelling. 6. When it is prophetic
      When God showed you a revelation or spoke to you prophetically, it may require that you acknowledge Him as the source. However, this is very dicey and delicate thus, wisdom is highly required in delivering prophetic messages.
      If you don’t mind, we can have part 3 to address “how to relate visions & revelations” to people.
  • PASTOR’S DIARY: When to Say “God Says”.

    PASTOR’S DIARY: When to Say “God Says”.

    PASTORS_DIARY: When to say “God Says”.

    If anyone claims that he has never misheard God then, he has never heard God. The reason some people stumble upon their speech and some do not is conditioned by their understanding of spiritual things and the presentation.

    The aim of article is not explain how to hear God correctly but how to present whatever you thinks God says to you. It is pardonable to speak wrongly based on your own thought than to speak wrongly under the premise of God says.

    Let’s start with WHEN NOT TO SAY GOD SAYS.

    1. When you require counsel from your spiritual father.
      Imagine if Moses went to Jethro for advice and started by saying “God told me to judge the people this way though it’s stressful”. Jethro knew God used to speak to Moses mouth to mouth so he won’t want to say God “didn’t say” even though he would know that he was wrong. It is the same when a son or daughter goes to his spiritual father for counsel. A son who says, “I feel” or “I think” is open to counsel but the one that says “God says this and that” is not open to any counsel. However, in some critical cases, like calling into the ministry and choosing a life partner, it requires the prefix- “God told me”. But, don’t go ahead to state the details using “God says”. If you are to add details, let it seem like your thought so they can advice you freely. I wish I can say this louder. I took pity on some people, if not, they won’t take any counsel away from me other than “since God told you, go do it.” Imagine someone presenting to you his God-given ministry’s name filled with grammatical errors.
    2. When speaking to the elderly.
      One of my good sons went to his in-law’s house for the first time and told them God said he must marry his wife that year. The family spoke of their unreadiness yet he insisted God said. When he told me of his experience, he said he was using CDA like I taught them. I reminded him that the scriptures say you should not cast your pearl before the pigs because it may turn against you (Mathew 7:6).

    Generally, elders both carnal and spiritual sees “God says” from a youth as pride. If you need their approval, support or counsel, present most of your speech as your thought. Let them say whatever they wanted to say. Pick the wrong advice from the right ones and move on. Some youths will even argue fiercely with elders claiming “God said”. When God told me to resign into full time ministry, I spoke to about 10 elders. I did tell them I was led but I didn’t emphasize on it. I wanted them to talk freely. Some gave skewed views but it contained some wisdom and challenge. I wouldn’t have gotten that if am just about God says.

    1. When you are not sure-
      Has this ever happened to you? God might tell you something or showed you a vision and yet, you aren’t 100% sure about what it means. That’s why you see mature men of God asking questions instead of speaking emphatically. Like, “who is John?” Instead of, “your husband’s name is John”. Many think it’s a style. No, it’s a wisdom. If you asked some men of God, they would confess to you that they don’t even feel that person standing before them could be married so, they had thought that John was her brother. I have goofed on this before.
    2. When it’s not necessary: the main reason for adding “God says” is to validate your word but many times, it is not actually required. You can be trusted without adding it and that opens you up to counsel as well. 8 out of 10 ten times I have told my wife about my thought on certain issues is actually what I felt God said to me but I always present it as my own thought. Many times, she has edited some and dismissed some. She was able to do that because I didn’t start with “God says”. And I have realized that most of the things she dismissed were actually my own thought.
    3. When details is required.
      We all know that at times, God only give the topic and we are left to add the body but we often feel that all the body comes from the Spirit alas, we have mixed it up somewhere. So, when talking, present the topic as God says if necessary and present the details as your own thought even when you feel God had told you.
    4. When Lying:
      Yes, I have witnessed this several times. Because people know God speaks to you doesn’t mean you should deceive them with “God says”. It’s not enough that you lied but you added God said? Don’t say it while joking or playing. Don’t say it when you don’t mean it.
    5. When presiding:
      Presidents and leaders need to know this. You don’t stand before your executive members all the time saying God said this and that. What about, “I have an idea”, “I thought about something”, “Can we do this?”. Honestly, I have presented some things before our excos that I felt I heard God but they dismissed it before it landed. They could do that freely because I didn’t start with God said. And every of those times, they were right. At times, they only edit what I said and I go back to re-align. And of course, some times, I have said to them: “God says” emphatically and had never missed to His Glory.
    6. When it’s too much.
      When I was younger, I always say “Holy Spirit says I should sit”, “Holy Spirit says I should stand”, “Holy Spirit tells me to sleep”, “God says this and that”. One day, Holy Spirit told me: “but you can do this and that without saying God says, isn’t it?” He told me to stop saying “God says” outrightly for some time till I learnt when to say it and when not. I am still learning.
    7. When spitting others:
      Let’s even assume God told you that a man is a liar, you can tell him that he’s lying without saying God says. When you love others, you won’t want to put them to shame openly let alone coat your words with God says.

    I will talk about when to say “God says” in another article.

    Learn from Paul. Some times, he presented issues as his personal opinion even when he knew he was so inspired.

    1 Cor. 7:12
    Now, I will speak to the rest of you, though I do not have a di­rect command from the Lord. If a Chris­tian man has a wife who is not a be­liev­er and she is will­ing to con­tinue living with him, he must not leave her.

    1 Cor. 14:5
    I wish you could all speak in tongues, but even more I wish you could all prophesy.

    1Ti 5:23
    Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

  • MOSES; NOT ANGER

    MOSES; NOT ANGER

    I have said this over the years. MOSES wasn’t denied access to the promise land because of anger! I have discovered this since I was in the teenage Church.

    Infact, that text of the Scripture didn’t mention the word anger or anything close to it. However, it won’t be wrong to say that he must have gotten angry at some point but God didn’t punish him for getting angry. He was punished because he refused to give the glory to God and that was the red line. Moses could take a strange woman in as a wife and God would forgive him but to share in His glory for a moment is one thing, He won’t take. Not from Moses or Aaron (I may talk about why those two can’t get away with it another day).

    Someone would say he struck the rock twice in anger but I beg to disagree. I believe it was a “show-off”, a kind of bragado. Don’t forget that it was not only Moses that was denied access into the promise land, Aaron was also affected. Aaron wasn’t the one that struck the rock or even talked but paid for it. He paid for it because he was standing there with Moses when he presented the two of them as Jehovah-Jireh. Barnabas and Paul were smart. They torn their clothes to reveal their humanity and rejected being seen as God vehemently.

    Bonus: God didn’t even tell Moses to strike the rock, he was only asked to speak to it.

  • Pre Adamic world 3

    Pre Adamic world 3

    Pre-Adamic World III
    By; Ife Adetona ©SADOZ 11/02/21

    There is something about deep mysteries of the Scriptures, it is very slippery. It looks like a conspiracy theory. In a conspiracy theory, you may think that you have fixed the puzzles and have gotten all things right without knowing that you have missed it and deviated in many parts.

    So far, in series I & II, we have been able, by His Grace to clarify the meanings of some Scriptures used by “Pre-Adamic advocates”. And in this edition, I will talk about Ezekiel 28:13a

    “You were in Eden, the garden of God”.

    With that passage, they have said Lucifer was the first resident of Eden. But this can’t be true except they are saying that there were two Edens- one before Adam and another after Adam. See the Scriptures: Gen. 2:8

    Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.

    With all indications, this doesn’t looks like what God was doing for the second time. It was the first time. The Bible says…and there he placed man-Adam. Read verse 9 of that passage to see how God planted and set the trees in His garden.

    So, referring to “Lucifer” as an occupant of Eden in Ezekiel is only a poetic term. It was only used figuratively to give a close picture of what happened. It is like telling you that “the fellowship of yesterday was haven” or, “there home is Eden”. There are other places in the Bible where Eden was used figuratively. In the same Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 31:8, the nation of Assyria was referred to as a tree in Eden.

    Meanwhile, the passage we are discussing was not only referring to Lucifer. Infact, contextually, it has nothing to do with Lucifer but by understanding, we know it also addresses him.

    Now, let me teach you something. Poetic and Prophetic books of the Bible like Ezekiel are the most dicey to interpret but if you know the key, it will be easy. The first key is that, they talk in tenses. They can talk about the present, past or future tense within a single verse or chapter. The second key is that “they usually have two to three referents- that is, whom they are referring to”. So, before you interpret any line, ask yourself: “to whom was this said”, it could be one or two or even three. The writer could be referring to himself, or an immediate character or a distant character. That is why, when you read Psalms, a verse may be referring to David and then the next line within the same verse, is prophetically referring to Jesus Christ. At some other times, the same verse could address both David and Jesus Christ.

    Let’s go back to the book of Ezekiel. That verse was essentially referring to both “the King of Tyre” and “Lucifer”, comparing them to “Adam” who was sent away from Eden after he sinned. The King of Tyre sinned, and God also sent him away from His glory. Lucifer also sinned and was sent away.

    If there are Scriptures that truly proves that there was a Pre-Adamite world, I will believe it but the ones I have seen and read so far, I am sorry, to say, they were coined to back a pre-conceived theory.

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