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

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

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

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.

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

Thank You EBM for the outing.
It was an EBM thing but…I requested for additional faces as much their budget could satiate.

Some run physical errands year round across places- Zion City, printing press, banks etc. I asked that they should be invited.
I requested we should have one or two Anagkazo heroes especially those with near distance.

In all…I fear that my joy won’t be full if I don’t see all my children around me.

But we had a choice: do nothing or do something.

I feel your presence and your love and you are- everyone, so dear to my heart.

We have done it before and we can do it again, where we shall have all or most in a lunch, dinner or hangout.

Everyone that visited me in the house,
Thank you.
Your fragrance cheers me on.

South-East/South South Brethren,
Thanks for the honour and the gift -that was massive.

I have received so many personal gifts…
Much more than any period ever.
I am full!
THANK YOU.

I am committed to read all texts, messages, chats, posts, photos, videos….

You have honoured me, your mere servant, THE LORD, MY GOD shall honour you.

Before my next birthday, you shall be celebrated.

PLS, listen to this morning PS, I have a special prayer for you there.

https://t.me/propheticshowers/299281

Thank You Sadozites
Thank You Friends
Thank You Daddies & Mummy.
Thank You Family.

PYP.

I have heard a lot of rumors that some books are demonic and the likes. I always imagine something from my childhood. I haven’t been a victim of demonic books and heretic messages. I believe it is grace and at same time I don’t approach life with “fear and cautions”. I mean I am not “demon preconscious”. I have read famous and beloved authors that I notice mistakes in their teachings. That doesn’t make them heretic but they just made some mistakes and there are some I can’t even read their books because they are much off the road than on the road. So, I admit there are wrong books. But there are wrong readers too. Some persons will always see heresy in everything they read even when they read the Bible. Such have heretic spirit in them and need help.

To stay on the road, check the presence of the Holy Spirit in you. Jesus says He will lead us into all truths. I have been in a situation where I simply disagree with some concepts from my heart. I may not know the right concepts but I simply know that particular concept is wrong. With time, I grow to understand the correct concept and know where the author has missed it. To get the Holy Spirit active in you pick a copy of our book today: “The Communion of the Holy Spirit”.

Biographies and auto-biographies are mostly safe books to read. SADOZites are readers. We dedicate a week of our online Bible study on the whatsaap platform to studying about dead Christian heroes and inventors. You can also be part of it. You can read up biographies and autobiographies on Google or purchase the popular book: God’s Generals.
At first, I have very few authors but as I read their books I see them refer to other persons and that made me believe that those ones referred to must be reliable. Another means I select my author is to look into some subjects or Biblical concepts then go check what the leading voices in that field have to say. You can also rely on your Spiritual discipler or mentor to guide you.

My best book is “Good Morning Holy Spirit” by Benny Hinn and my best author is Kenneth E. Hagin. My favorite African authors are David Oyedepo and Dag Hedward-Mills. I don’t approach any book with “final say” and I don’t trust anyone to the level of digesting all they say absolutely. I agree with so many of what my trusted authors have to say on the spot, I had to make personal findings before I accept some and have discarded very few things they teach which doesn’t go down well in my spirit. But on the overall, those authors have made an indelible impact in my life and ministry.

May the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you.

What books do I read is the next question of a man who has made up his mind to build the book culture? I will be talking about spiritual books today. As a growing Christian of this age, permit me to say you need spiritual books as much as you need your Bible. The reason is simple. I read a book of a man of God. He said it took him over 50years in ministry to learn what he wrote. That means when you read such books you are fifty years older in knowledge than your age. That book is one of my greatest resources in Ministry.

Another reason you must read spiritual books is; there is what we call areas of calling in ministry. Some ministers are known to preach Grace, Faith, Prosperity, Holy Spirit and so on. For example, I preach the whole Bible but I am specially anointed to preach about the Holy Spirit and have been doing that for years now. There are so many insight and experiences I have gained in that area that so many persons didn’t have.. Reading any of my books gives you a wholesome light in that area.

We read spiritual books to get imparted by the power of God at work in the author’s life. I was reading a book on wisdom when I suddenly felt a tug in my heart and the Holy Spirit told me: you have been imparted with wisdom. I was also reading a book on faith and had the same experience. I remember reading a book on the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The author described so many manifestations of the anointing in His ministry. I was fired up in my spirit. I had a ministration same day, my faith leaned on God to do the same through me. That was the genesis of spectacular manifestation in my ministry to the glory of God.

Healings and deliverance also come through books. Many people have got their deliverance and healings through spiritual books that address specific areas of their needs. I prayed to God at a time to be used in the ministry of healing. God told me to go read a book on Healing first. That was the first time I read Kenneth Hagins book: The Healing Anointing. I was disappointed because he was speaking about faith and what I wanted is something on the anointing but to the glory of God, that formed my journey to living healthy and being used in that field as well.

I can’t exhaust the purpose of spiritual books, it is enormous. A minister as well as a Christian needs to study books on some Biblical concepts before they speak about it themselves in that way you avoid misinterpretation of the scriptures

May the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you.