THE SEPARATION AND PREPARATION HOUR IS UPON THE WORLD NOW!
"I see the angels of God from one end of the earth to the other
separating the children of men and setting them to their lot in this
hour. Those for death, those for hunger, those for violence of the
sword, those for casting to the agitating elements and those appointed
to various determinations. The message is clear - the hour of separation
and preparation is upon the world now!"
- Apostle Patrice Yehuda
Monday, July 21, 2014
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Days of Mysteries has begun!
The days of mysteries has begun!
Firstly, Malaysian airlines flight MH370 disappeared on 17.20 hrs UTC on March 7, 2014. Take note of the date 3 for the third month and 7 for the day of the month.
Secondly, again Malaysian airlines flight MH17 was shot down July 17, 2014. Take note of the flight code 17 and the date 17 of the seventh month.
There was the third month -3
Then there was the seventh month - 7
There shall also be the zero hour of all things! - 0
If you like believe this or not, but the days of mysteries has begun!
- Apostle Patrice Yehuda
Firstly, Malaysian airlines flight MH370 disappeared on 17.20 hrs UTC on March 7, 2014. Take note of the date 3 for the third month and 7 for the day of the month.
Secondly, again Malaysian airlines flight MH17 was shot down July 17, 2014. Take note of the flight code 17 and the date 17 of the seventh month.
There was the third month -3
Then there was the seventh month - 7
There shall also be the zero hour of all things! - 0
If you like believe this or not, but the days of mysteries has begun!
- Apostle Patrice Yehuda
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Justice Oputa's Burial: A Sepulcher of Hypocrites and Sycophants
Justice Oputa's Burial: A Sepulcher of Hypocrites and Sycophants
From New York to London, Sweden to
Helsinki, India to China, the trending topic was how "CharlyBoy snatched
the microphone from Rochas Okorocha, the Governor of the state of Imo".
Comments flying in different directions about what happened, the people involved, the controversies, the virgins...Kai.
People ask why CharlyBoy is who he is.
Why have two days of musical concerts after the death of his iconic
father? Why argue or fight a sitting governor – doesn’t he fear the veto
venom of a man in power? Why walk around with 6 feet tall,
provocatively clad girls wearing bizarre wigs in public, even in the
presence of God, his wife and the dearly departed? For some reason, the
last one elicits more provocation than most questions about my dear
alter ego, CharlyBoy.
Funny how envy, anger, timidity,
mongopark mentality, hypocrisy and sycophancy have crippled the minds of
many of my brothers and sisters. Oh my God!
A lot of people in Nigeria live in
fear and express it through anger, jealousy and spite – everything
acceptable; than actually having the courage to face that fear and be
the person they really were made to be. Me I no send. The CharlyBoy
brand is me doing my job well – it’s an image, a character invented to
shake monotonous minds from their daily doldrums and pull them away from
the comforts of the familiar, just for a while. All we have seen from
pictures and videos from the weeklong event is more than enough to stir
excitement and controversy – good and bad.
Let me warn: those who are easily shocked should be prepared to be shocked even more and more often.
I have been called everything from a
cheap publicity monger to a cult leader. Those "Charlys Virgins" whose
tests are yet to be confirmed have been identified by busybodies as my
grand-daughters, spiritual wives, satan’s handmaidens. Hummmmmm! Big
deal. I have always known that insecure people put up boundaries but
confident ones tear them down. Spiritual people have church picnics.
The kind of ass-licking and
shit-eating that goes on in Imo State is for lack of a better word,
infuriating and obnoxious. Chai there is Godooooo.
How did the Day of Tributes organised
by the Imo State Government on behalf of the great Justice Oputa turn
into a political campaign front and a seminar in ass-kissing? Why would
anyone expect me to sit down and listen to politicians begging for
goodwill from the governor while using the memory of my late father as
an opportunity? What an insult on his name! God punish them die. The Imo
State government has no shame anymore, the sycophants and
megalomaniacs calling themselves leaders whose pictures litter every
street corner and roundabout in Owerri begging for a second try at doing
nothing who exchange naira for loyalty. Claps in the Church of God is
not what would get you re-elected, my brother Rochas, bear that in
mind.
The interesting thing about all this
is that the people, the ordinary men and women that Imo government is
supposed to, yet refuses to serve, are the ones hailing the AreaFada,
why? Could it be that the poverty-stricken Imolites are hailing The
AreaFada because they feel battered by the mental rape committed against
them by their leaders and yet, are afraid and feel powerless to defend
themselves, to fight back? I am especially referring to the men and
women of Oguta who are not just powerless, timid and foolishly arrogant
but refuse to seek any control of their lives from the government. They
just sit there and survive, suffering and smiling sheepishly.
How can an entire town, the Blue Lake
city, go without electricity for good six years and not do or say
anything about it? Not six days or six months, but SIX YEARS!! After all
the promises that Rochas gave of giving Oguta electricity for a few
days for the Justice Oputa funeral, we did not see even a flash of
electricity.
These my home-town people, in my
opinion, are polluted and disillusioned by their false arrogance from
being well positioned in the 1930s and 40s when they traded with the
white man, when they had UAC and John Holt and did good business better
than the people in the hinterland. Those were the good old days, gone
with the wind. Even as an oil producing community, what do they have to
show for it? Politically, they are wanting, socially they are timid;
many of them inundated by fear and poverty. They may have thought
themselves to be something six decades ago, but are nowhere politically
in this decade, not even one Imo State cabinet member is from Oguta.
Tufiakwa!
I am sure that this was one of the
reasons some cousins of mine decided to go looking for Rochas Okorocha
to beg for forgiveness on my behalf. Who send them? That's how they got
to Imo State government house without seeing the governor. After the
governor's aids sized them up, they concluded that they were only a
hungry bunch of PIRATED Oputas. Shebi, they came back with their tail
between their legs, shameless souls! Desperate mongrels looking for a
piece of leftover rotten flesh wherever they could hound. Their plans
failed, woefully. People who swallow pain killer for someone else'
headache! Can you imagine, apologise for what?
Truth be told, I come from a good
pedigree, trained by a great man. I know the law and can't be caught
dead breaking it. Upon all my ruggedness, there was no way, I, Charles
Oputa, would have snatched a microphone from someone speaking no matter
how much I hate what the person does. I get sense, am cultured and I
went to one of the best universities in the world. I am not a riffraff,
neither am I a gutter ass like some of these so called leaders.
At the very least I’m honest about my
identity (CharlyBoy), proud about my upbringing and courageous in the
face of crippling doubt about my brand. I am however confident in the
fact that I’m doing one thing many will never accomplish in their short
time on earth: leaving a legacy, just like my father did. So park well.
There is a method to my madness only
understood by deep thinkers, not sycophants and bootlickers. The
difference between my darkness and yours is that I can stare my own
badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering
your mirror with white linen sheet. The difference between my sins and
yours is that when I sin I know I'm sinning while you have actually
fallen prey to your own fabricated illusions.
If it makes people feel good calling
me a devil worshipper and a thug, when the very great Justice Oputa
trained me and finally doffed his hat for me and decided to preach the
gospel of Charlyboyisim before he died, mere mortals can go hug a
transformer. I have a name that is knock on wood. Anything you say, for
your pocket.
I am free, no matter what rules
surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them
otherwise, I break them. I am free because I know that I, alone, am
morally responsible for everything I do. It's discouraging to think how
many people are shocked by honesty and a few by deceit.
Instead of wallowing in the bile of
hypocrisy and envy, why don’t we search ourselves and consider the
deeper actions beneath all the pomp and pageantry twisted and
manipulated by the media? Is that prickly sensation in your heart
righteous indignation over the Oputa Funeral, or just mere heartburn?
Check yourself – hypocrisy doesn't just wound, it kills permanently.
Friday, July 11, 2014
PROPHETIC VISION JULY 11, 2014 - TIME IS SHORT NOW!
The visions that the Lord granted me this early morning was very sobering to say the least.
In the vision the Lord revealed that the time is too short to be playing religion.
Then I saw terrifying images in the heaven above - visions of the images and painting of Christ turning into images of concealed idolatry. The Lord revealed that many are adoring and reverencing picturesque images of Jesus which has become a form of concealed idolatry.
Deu 4:15 - 19
Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
The Lord also sent his word that we must never let love depart from our hearts no matter the provocation, pain or grief.
1Jn 3:11- 15 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Time is really short indeed and let him that has ears to hear let him hearken!
Shalom
- Apostle Dr Patrice Yehuda
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
NIGERIA: THE DEATH OF CONSCIENCE - Pat Utomi
The death of conscience - Pat Utomi
It used to be said that a conscience can become seared. As I watched a country carry on after more than 200 young women were abducted by anarchists who use terror as their signature tune and the powerful carried on as if nothing was troubling, and most of us as if it were a distant irritation, I felt rage in my spirit and a sense that in Nigeria, man’s humanity had been crushed and conscience had passed from being seared to suffering death.
To reflect on the death of conscience is a grave thing. As conscience is the inbuilt compass that enables the human navigate between good and evil, if it dies, I wonder if we can truly call who is left, human. Yet, as you look around, you see conscience in a frightening state. How can so many young people face a fate worse than terror attack and the institutions of state function as if nothing happened?
Much has already been said about the President celebrating and dancing in Kano and Ibadan the day after the first Nyanya bombing left nearly a hundred citizens dead and so many more severely injured. Many have compared Aso Rock’s response to that bombing with the response of The White House to the Boston Marathon bombing in which three lives were lost. Those comparisons lead me to recall a similar incident I commented about several years earlier.
In the same week that a cable car accident in Austria resulted in three deaths, a tanker truck crashed into a traffic jam created by a roadblock near Ibadan caused more than 200 deaths. Austria went into national mourning, flags flew at half mast, broadcasts appealed to the national spirit.
In Nigeria, the President, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, did not even bother to ask the media officer in the Villa to issue a statement. I asked at the time what a Nigerian life was worth. But we know that the Federal Executive Council can suspend sitting if a sibling of the Vice-President dies. Is it a matter of relativising the worth of people?
My friends who teach ethics will tell you that once you relativise the worth of another, you have made your own worth relative. This is precisely why people in power are worshipped and the day after, they are out of power, are treated like dirt by those people who the day before said they were the greatest thing since sliced bread.
The truth of the challenge of saving the dying conscience in Nigeria, it seems to me, has to begin with enlightenment on our shared humanity. The death of anyone should, as the great quote goes, diminish us. The death of so many should crush our spirits and inspire action. The abduction of so many innocents unto so uncertain a fate should force us all to lose sleep.
Instead of leaders closing ranks in advance of the common good, everything is reduced to partisanship and some are even questioning that the abduction took place as some people question that the holocaust took place. This cannot be our way.
Again, it is important for those who think it is something happening to one remote part of the North-East to be reminded of Rev. Martin Niemoller and Dante’s inferno.
Niemoller reminds that they first came for the Jews, and the object kept quiet. Because those Jews were troublesome anyway. Next, they came for communists but he stayed mute because he was not a Communist, then they came for the Catholics but he kept quiet because he was a protestant. When they came for him, there was no one left to speak up.
To this I would like to remind that in Dante’s inferno, the hottest part of hell is reserved for those who in a moral question take refuge in neutrality.
We cannot go on with consciences that leave much to question. We saw a country cheer on as power raped the banking system, stealing people’s property and ordinary Nigerian shareholders lost their life’s savings and investments but we failed to speak up. Those that tried to point to truth were shouted down. Now, the wound is open.
When I called for international consultants to be used to evaluate the Central Bank of Nigeria’s decisions on bank takeover, some said sour grapes. Now, let us go to the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria and see what documents they can find in the CBN after the gang rape of an economy we cheered.
If the conscience can be shut out in one area, it can be everywhere.
Beyond the CBN, this syndrome of impunity, no matter how much it makes others suffer, has become widespread in Nigeria and the daily killing and maiming of innocent people have simply become part of this recession of conscience evident in corruption whose consequence is the slow death of many but which is now systemic and some see as an entitlement. The seared conscience prevents us from seeing the real consequence of the bribes we demand.
The nature of this dying conscience comes alive in what has happened to the missing Chibok girls’ story which we have to close with.
Imagine for a second that one of those girls were your daughter or sister. Think what you will be feeling and thinking now. Think also of how if we fail to nip one social problem in the bud it quickly becomes a norm. Remember how kidnapping started in the Niger Delta.
Today, the South-East is sliding back because its sons and daughters are afraid to visit. So, Boko Haram is not a North-East problem. It can be the death of all of us.
Until we act together from an awakening of conscience, we may be sub-optimising big time in thinking we are being self-centred. In front of us is an intersection. We can either walk the road to Somalia or pour cold water on our snoring consciences.
Pat Utomi, political economist and professor of entrepreneurship, is Founder of the Centre for Values in Leadership.
It used to be said that a conscience can become seared. As I watched a country carry on after more than 200 young women were abducted by anarchists who use terror as their signature tune and the powerful carried on as if nothing was troubling, and most of us as if it were a distant irritation, I felt rage in my spirit and a sense that in Nigeria, man’s humanity had been crushed and conscience had passed from being seared to suffering death.
To reflect on the death of conscience is a grave thing. As conscience is the inbuilt compass that enables the human navigate between good and evil, if it dies, I wonder if we can truly call who is left, human. Yet, as you look around, you see conscience in a frightening state. How can so many young people face a fate worse than terror attack and the institutions of state function as if nothing happened?
Much has already been said about the President celebrating and dancing in Kano and Ibadan the day after the first Nyanya bombing left nearly a hundred citizens dead and so many more severely injured. Many have compared Aso Rock’s response to that bombing with the response of The White House to the Boston Marathon bombing in which three lives were lost. Those comparisons lead me to recall a similar incident I commented about several years earlier.
In the same week that a cable car accident in Austria resulted in three deaths, a tanker truck crashed into a traffic jam created by a roadblock near Ibadan caused more than 200 deaths. Austria went into national mourning, flags flew at half mast, broadcasts appealed to the national spirit.
In Nigeria, the President, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, did not even bother to ask the media officer in the Villa to issue a statement. I asked at the time what a Nigerian life was worth. But we know that the Federal Executive Council can suspend sitting if a sibling of the Vice-President dies. Is it a matter of relativising the worth of people?
My friends who teach ethics will tell you that once you relativise the worth of another, you have made your own worth relative. This is precisely why people in power are worshipped and the day after, they are out of power, are treated like dirt by those people who the day before said they were the greatest thing since sliced bread.
The truth of the challenge of saving the dying conscience in Nigeria, it seems to me, has to begin with enlightenment on our shared humanity. The death of anyone should, as the great quote goes, diminish us. The death of so many should crush our spirits and inspire action. The abduction of so many innocents unto so uncertain a fate should force us all to lose sleep.
Instead of leaders closing ranks in advance of the common good, everything is reduced to partisanship and some are even questioning that the abduction took place as some people question that the holocaust took place. This cannot be our way.
Again, it is important for those who think it is something happening to one remote part of the North-East to be reminded of Rev. Martin Niemoller and Dante’s inferno.
Niemoller reminds that they first came for the Jews, and the object kept quiet. Because those Jews were troublesome anyway. Next, they came for communists but he stayed mute because he was not a Communist, then they came for the Catholics but he kept quiet because he was a protestant. When they came for him, there was no one left to speak up.
To this I would like to remind that in Dante’s inferno, the hottest part of hell is reserved for those who in a moral question take refuge in neutrality.
We cannot go on with consciences that leave much to question. We saw a country cheer on as power raped the banking system, stealing people’s property and ordinary Nigerian shareholders lost their life’s savings and investments but we failed to speak up. Those that tried to point to truth were shouted down. Now, the wound is open.
When I called for international consultants to be used to evaluate the Central Bank of Nigeria’s decisions on bank takeover, some said sour grapes. Now, let us go to the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria and see what documents they can find in the CBN after the gang rape of an economy we cheered.
If the conscience can be shut out in one area, it can be everywhere.
Beyond the CBN, this syndrome of impunity, no matter how much it makes others suffer, has become widespread in Nigeria and the daily killing and maiming of innocent people have simply become part of this recession of conscience evident in corruption whose consequence is the slow death of many but which is now systemic and some see as an entitlement. The seared conscience prevents us from seeing the real consequence of the bribes we demand.
The nature of this dying conscience comes alive in what has happened to the missing Chibok girls’ story which we have to close with.
Imagine for a second that one of those girls were your daughter or sister. Think what you will be feeling and thinking now. Think also of how if we fail to nip one social problem in the bud it quickly becomes a norm. Remember how kidnapping started in the Niger Delta.
Today, the South-East is sliding back because its sons and daughters are afraid to visit. So, Boko Haram is not a North-East problem. It can be the death of all of us.
Until we act together from an awakening of conscience, we may be sub-optimising big time in thinking we are being self-centred. In front of us is an intersection. We can either walk the road to Somalia or pour cold water on our snoring consciences.
Pat Utomi, political economist and professor of entrepreneurship, is Founder of the Centre for Values in Leadership.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
CALLED TO LOVE FOR LIFE
"CALLED TO LOVE FOR LIFE"! ~ OEV
He has let me down. He has hurt my feelings. He has left me hanging. He has ignored me. He has walked out on me. He has raised his voice at me. He has hung up on me. He has allowed my tears to fall. He has done things that were uncalled for. But at the end of the day, THAT’S MY MAN! The man God blessed ME with! You may ask, “How in the world can you love a man like that? A man who’s done those things to you”? And my answer will ALWAYS be the same. “Because I am CALLED to love him, even when he is unlovable”! And guess what? It takes CHRIST to love a man who has hurt you in what God called and made HONORABLE!
He has let me down. He has hurt my feelings. He has left me hanging. He has ignored me. He has walked out on me. He has raised his voice at me. He has hung up on me. He has allowed my tears to fall. He has done things that were uncalled for. But at the end of the day, THAT’S MY MAN! The man God blessed ME with! You may ask, “How in the world can you love a man like that? A man who’s done those things to you”? And my answer will ALWAYS be the same. “Because I am CALLED to love him, even when he is unlovable”! And guess what? It takes CHRIST to love a man who has hurt you in what God called and made HONORABLE!
I did not marry
to stay in the marriage for only the good times. I married to stay
married FOR LIFE! I married to honor God and not fall anymore into
sexual sin with the man I gave my heart to. I married to make beautiful
babies with the man who’s called to cover me for life. I married
because in spite of his flaws, I love my man! You know, the imperfect
man God blessed me with but he's perfect for me.
I can’t just love my husband when he is good to me. Oh no, that is too easy. I can’t just love my husband after mind blowing sex. Oh no, that’s even easier. I can’t just love my husband when he’s putting money in my hands to do what I want with. Now that’s easy as pie! No I must also love him even when he is at his worse because I vowed before man and God to do so! And I am a firm believer that you do reap what you sow. How do I know this? OK let me share!
That same man who has let me down has been dependable. That same man who has hurt my feelings has repented and made things right. That same man who has left me hanging has come back and caught me in the spirit when I was spiritually falling. That same man who has ignored me has given me his undivided attention while I was pouring my heart out to him for hours. That same man who walked out on me has been by my side when I was at my worst. That same man who raised his voice at me is the same man who whispered sweet “somethings” into my ear. That same man who hung up on me a few times in the past, answers my every call. That same man who allowed my tears to fall has wiped them before my tears finished forming. (Oh yes he did)! That same man who has done things uncalled for has done things above what I asked of him. My point?
Marriage is a lot of things, but one thing it is not is EASY! Marriage God’s way is the training ground for the mission field for those who are married (We will talk more about this at a later date). Contrary to popular belief, we do get hurt in marriage. We do have to administer grace and mercy to our spouses in marriage. We do have to repent and forgive in marriage. We do have to apologize and reconcile in marriage. Not just in my marriage but EVERY marriage done God’s way. Why is that? Because marriage God’s way is where you have an imperfect man and an imperfect woman who are both being perfected DAILY through Christ! So, if that husband and wife are BOTH being perfected, what makes ANYONE think there won’t be hard times in marriage? What make anyone think a believing husband or a believing wife won’t mess up? What makes anyone think that Christian couples are supposed to be PERFECT? What makes anyone think that born again believing couples will NEVER have to fight for their marriage? What makes anyone think a Godly couple will not have to battle their flesh? Please let’s be real! Just because many or even MOST couples don’t or won’t share their inner marital battles does not mean that there aren't any battles! Just because many couples pretend that all is always well does not mean that all is always well. Listen, marriage may be private but the testimony on how couples make it through is to be shared to encourage those who need it. God must be glorified, not just in how he’s blessed us with money and with things but also how he’s brought us out of adultery, pornography, masturbation, lying, constant fighting and more. You know…all those things Godly couples “NEVER” do!
The point of this post is Singles, please don’t look at all the weddings of others and only daydream of all the beautiful days of marriage without understanding that there WILL be days that are not so beautiful. Married couples, please don’t look at your marriage as hopeless just because you and your spouse have seemingly failed in so many areas of your marriage. There have been some ugly days in my own marriage. I’m just being real, but the scripture I harp on is how He made ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIME! Yes HIS TIME! And if He made things beautiful, that must mean there are some UGLY things that had to be made beautiful right? But just because God will do His part does not mean we don't do our part and work on our marriage. It just means while we are working, it may not look so good right now, but we must keep working and eventually we will see the results we are working for!
If you take anything from this post, please take away this; when you say “I Do” or “I Will” that means you are answering a call to LOVE YOUR SPOUSE FOR LIFE! Not a call to “love your spouse for now” or a call to “love your spouse only during the good times” but to love them “FOR BETTER or FOR WORSE”! There’s so many things that can go under the “FOR WORSE” part just as there are so many things that can go under the “FOR BETTER” part. But understand that marriage is to be FOR LIFE, so you are CALLED TO LOVE your wife or husband FOR LIFE!
Never let the letdowns and mishaps of your spouse cause you to hate them. Instead use those moments to love them like you've never loved them before! In other words, if you love them at their worse, you will find yourself loving them more and more at their best! I know many are reading saying, “I can’t do this” and I’m here to tell you, you are right. YOU cannot do this. Not through your own flesh but, you CAN do this THROUGH CHRIST!
So for many of you who are going through in your marriage, KEEP WORKING and you will see what was once so beautiful on your wedding day is even more beautiful now; even with all the battle scars you and your spouse have accumulated over time. Understand that even though there will be hard times in marriage; and even though you will have to extend mercy, grace and forgiveness to your spouse for their wrongs against you, you were CALLED TO LOVE FOR LIFE!
1 Cor 7:28b (NIV), “…But those who marry will face many troubles in this life…”
But God is always with us, all we (we as in husband and wife) have to do is OBEY and He will work everything out!
Eccl 3:11, “He hath made every thing beautiful in His time…”
Notice it does not say He WILL make but HE HAS MADE. In other words, you and your spouse may be facing problems in your marriage today but God has already worked it out. All you have to do is heed to His Spirit and His Word on what YOU need to do, then you will see the BEAUTIFUL He already made in HIS TIME!
Mark 10:9 (NASB), "What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate". #CalledToLoveForLife
Please share this with as MANY as you can as you never know who it will help! Thanks Fam!
OEV
I can’t just love my husband when he is good to me. Oh no, that is too easy. I can’t just love my husband after mind blowing sex. Oh no, that’s even easier. I can’t just love my husband when he’s putting money in my hands to do what I want with. Now that’s easy as pie! No I must also love him even when he is at his worse because I vowed before man and God to do so! And I am a firm believer that you do reap what you sow. How do I know this? OK let me share!
That same man who has let me down has been dependable. That same man who has hurt my feelings has repented and made things right. That same man who has left me hanging has come back and caught me in the spirit when I was spiritually falling. That same man who has ignored me has given me his undivided attention while I was pouring my heart out to him for hours. That same man who walked out on me has been by my side when I was at my worst. That same man who raised his voice at me is the same man who whispered sweet “somethings” into my ear. That same man who hung up on me a few times in the past, answers my every call. That same man who allowed my tears to fall has wiped them before my tears finished forming. (Oh yes he did)! That same man who has done things uncalled for has done things above what I asked of him. My point?
Marriage is a lot of things, but one thing it is not is EASY! Marriage God’s way is the training ground for the mission field for those who are married (We will talk more about this at a later date). Contrary to popular belief, we do get hurt in marriage. We do have to administer grace and mercy to our spouses in marriage. We do have to repent and forgive in marriage. We do have to apologize and reconcile in marriage. Not just in my marriage but EVERY marriage done God’s way. Why is that? Because marriage God’s way is where you have an imperfect man and an imperfect woman who are both being perfected DAILY through Christ! So, if that husband and wife are BOTH being perfected, what makes ANYONE think there won’t be hard times in marriage? What make anyone think a believing husband or a believing wife won’t mess up? What makes anyone think that Christian couples are supposed to be PERFECT? What makes anyone think that born again believing couples will NEVER have to fight for their marriage? What makes anyone think a Godly couple will not have to battle their flesh? Please let’s be real! Just because many or even MOST couples don’t or won’t share their inner marital battles does not mean that there aren't any battles! Just because many couples pretend that all is always well does not mean that all is always well. Listen, marriage may be private but the testimony on how couples make it through is to be shared to encourage those who need it. God must be glorified, not just in how he’s blessed us with money and with things but also how he’s brought us out of adultery, pornography, masturbation, lying, constant fighting and more. You know…all those things Godly couples “NEVER” do!
The point of this post is Singles, please don’t look at all the weddings of others and only daydream of all the beautiful days of marriage without understanding that there WILL be days that are not so beautiful. Married couples, please don’t look at your marriage as hopeless just because you and your spouse have seemingly failed in so many areas of your marriage. There have been some ugly days in my own marriage. I’m just being real, but the scripture I harp on is how He made ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIME! Yes HIS TIME! And if He made things beautiful, that must mean there are some UGLY things that had to be made beautiful right? But just because God will do His part does not mean we don't do our part and work on our marriage. It just means while we are working, it may not look so good right now, but we must keep working and eventually we will see the results we are working for!
If you take anything from this post, please take away this; when you say “I Do” or “I Will” that means you are answering a call to LOVE YOUR SPOUSE FOR LIFE! Not a call to “love your spouse for now” or a call to “love your spouse only during the good times” but to love them “FOR BETTER or FOR WORSE”! There’s so many things that can go under the “FOR WORSE” part just as there are so many things that can go under the “FOR BETTER” part. But understand that marriage is to be FOR LIFE, so you are CALLED TO LOVE your wife or husband FOR LIFE!
Never let the letdowns and mishaps of your spouse cause you to hate them. Instead use those moments to love them like you've never loved them before! In other words, if you love them at their worse, you will find yourself loving them more and more at their best! I know many are reading saying, “I can’t do this” and I’m here to tell you, you are right. YOU cannot do this. Not through your own flesh but, you CAN do this THROUGH CHRIST!
So for many of you who are going through in your marriage, KEEP WORKING and you will see what was once so beautiful on your wedding day is even more beautiful now; even with all the battle scars you and your spouse have accumulated over time. Understand that even though there will be hard times in marriage; and even though you will have to extend mercy, grace and forgiveness to your spouse for their wrongs against you, you were CALLED TO LOVE FOR LIFE!
1 Cor 7:28b (NIV), “…But those who marry will face many troubles in this life…”
But God is always with us, all we (we as in husband and wife) have to do is OBEY and He will work everything out!
Eccl 3:11, “He hath made every thing beautiful in His time…”
Notice it does not say He WILL make but HE HAS MADE. In other words, you and your spouse may be facing problems in your marriage today but God has already worked it out. All you have to do is heed to His Spirit and His Word on what YOU need to do, then you will see the BEAUTIFUL He already made in HIS TIME!
Mark 10:9 (NASB), "What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate". #CalledToLoveForLife
Please share this with as MANY as you can as you never know who it will help! Thanks Fam!
OEV
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
PROPHECY: THE COMING ERA OF LAWLESSNESS
PROPHETIC VISION OF 1ST JULY, 2014:
The Spirit of the Lord spoke clearly to me this morning and this is a message to all who have ears to hear what He the Eternal Spirit is saying in this hour.
In the dawning of the day the Lord spoke clearly that "the fear of the Lord is gradually eroding away from the world to pave way for absolute lawlessness which will reign for a season that is appointed to it. He also revealed that the season will be for a period of seven times. Let him that has wisdom understand this"
Let it be known also that the world is gradually moving into an era of anarchy, chaos, upheavals, lawlessness, wholesale violence and wickedness, bloodletting such as never seen since the days of man on the earth.
"Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid." - Isaiah 44 : 24 - 28
You can also see my magazine "The Battle for the Soul of a Nation" on Flipboard for previous prophecies touching nations - Nigeria, Russia, Israel, South Africa etc
Shalom
- Apostle Dr Patrice Yehuda
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