INTRODUCING FAITH (#Encounter Series 3) Heb 11

I am crucified with Christ . I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life I Now live, I live by the faith of the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Gal 3:11 but that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, the just shall live by faith.

Christ living in me produces faith in me by my fellowship with the Holy Spirit, the faith produced in me is expressed outside, so I now live by the faith of the son of God. Everything I do now is by faith which is a sign that I have died. Because anything not done in faith will not represent the Jesus Christ that lives in me.

SO WHAT THEN IS FAITH? as the bible said the just shall live by faith,

Faith is trusting completely in God's ability whatever the case may be, challenges, sickness, lack e.t.c

So we can rephrase all our references to faith by trusting completely in God's ability through Christ Jesus.

If we insert this into Heb 11:1 Trusting completely in God's ability through Christ Jesus is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

In Gal 2:20, I am crucified with Christ. I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life I now live, I live by trusting completely in God's ability through Christ Jesus, the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

We can insert this into any verse where faith is, even e.g he 11:6 also, Without Trusting completely in God's ability through Christ Jesus it is impossible to please God, because anyone that must come to God must believe that he is, and he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him.

To satisfy God's longing desire in us anything we do must be in faith, because anything not done in Faith is sin. The faith talked about in Hebrew 11 is a relationship, and describes how through fellowship we can be pleasing to God, It is not a demanding faith, the faith been discussed is believing in Christ. This faith encompasses every aspect of life and living. It is this relationship with Christ that produces the ability to do exploits.

Hebrews 11 through many stories shares how people's relationship with God was able to impact their nation, their generation or their life. The same faith that made some do great things is the same that made some face persecution and even give up their life. So what do we make of this except that faith is a life, a relationship that shows how this people are with God, because without the power of the holy spirit they wouldn't have taking the steps they took, even to be martyred for Christ required faith, trusting the power of God's redemption, and believing it is worth defending allowing the holy spirit manifest in us his life, for example facing Goliath knowing full well that victory is only possible through Faith, having that perfect assurance that God has got you covered, because of what he has done for you, and what you have witnessed in your journey with God

What then is Faith? (#Encounter Series 2) 
Heb 11:1




I Stand to be corrected but most of the times the reason why Christians sin is a lack of faith, they have not yet realized that it is through faith you stop sinning. You only ascribe and agree with God that what He says is true, faith is agreeing with God. Living powerfully in faith, we would not sin bcos we see ourselves exactly the same way God sees us, that means we have not believed in the power of jesus to save us utterly from sin completely, we are making the grace of Jesus untrue frustrating the grace.

What is Faith? Is Faith a believe system. Is Faith a prayer tool, is Faith one of the many gifts of God, or is Faith just what we know it to be. What exactly is your understanding of faith, how do you see faith, is Faith deprived of its very power in your life. If you are confused about faith I advice you to seek understanding and revelation will flood your face. But this is faith, the resurrected life. That jesus Christ came and lived a certain way and recommended such a life for us, so that we may live triumphantly, that we may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his suffering being made conformable to his death. Brethren without his resurrection power we are nothing, I mean we are nothing, Faith is a life and Faith is also Living. Knowing Jesus is Faith, I am not talking about reading Jesus or getting acquainted with him, I mean knowing Jesus. There is no way you would know Jesus and not produce Faith, it is impossible. 

I pray God, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ that he would give us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. Revelation and power for living only comes from knowing him, so we see that we might all be able to shout that I may know him. But remember each time you shout that I may know him you are actually saying give me faith, as we sing this song give me jesus. Each time we cry that I may know him, give me jesus, we are actually shouting I need faith, I am desperate for faith. When we understand the position of faith in our lives we would know how to pray the right prayer, our cry won’t be give me this or give me that it would be give me faith.

When we are facing a crisis it would be give me faith, when we are broken it would be give me faith, when we are struggling or entangled with sin, it would be give me faith. It is the absence of faith, or the taking of our eyes away from faith that makes us to struggle, not as though if you have faith things won’t go wrong, but rather it is the presence of faith that makes us to triumph in every of our pursuit. So we can also say faith is the triumphant life. Faith is huge and it is all encompassing, it is a life. First a building of a relationship before it becomes a making of a demand. Faith is entirely spiritual, and it is wholly satisfying, but it demands a lot of attention, knowing Christ requires that.

I believe that with this I have being a blessing, more is coming on the subject of faith, this has being my life long research knowing what faith is, I started this search when I began to see cracks in the message of faith, I saw that even though we were told to get aquainted with Christ, it was to get acquainted with Christ so one can get results, I realize now that things are not so. This series is produced to promote encounter 2016, avail yourself by coming for the program as men of God come in to share their life on the journey of faith Encounter 2016 coming soon…. Be prepared plan to attend.

Shalom.

Faith (#Encounter series) Heb 11:1

This has been the bane of my journey, i have had to learn and unlearn about Faith, and i felt it important to share my experiences with us, this is also the theme for our annual camp meeting tagged #encounter the promotional design will be shared with us, avail yourself the opportunity and plan to attend, this teaching is going to be a series this is the first draft.

I have bn crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not i, but christ liveth in me. and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith of the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. So therefore, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, for by faith the heavens were formed. Calling those things that be not as though were, for by faith the world was framed and all that we see were brought into existence by that which we do not see, life was created by faith.

Even though we are not yet risen with the lord. We live in the resurrection, with the hope that Christ is coming. When our incorruptible body will be exchanged for incorruptible body. The work in our Christian walk is Faith. Even though we have access to everything by grace we receive them and see their manifestation by faith. Faith is our legal tender, we need to constantly strive to live by faith. We must keep Christ in our consciousness and allow our faith to have free course i.e it must flow. We stand a chance of being in extinction if our lives lose the power of it’s appeal which is faith, the one thing the world lacks that makes us stand out from them is faith it is the one thing missing from their puzzle, it is the reason why chaos reigns.

Faith brings peace, clarity and assurance, faith is a profession and an attainment, faith is a reality and a lifestyle. I have struggled so much because I was weak to exercise my faith and the devil capitalized on that, I thought the faith life was hard but as I reinvigorated myself in the word, God was able to show me that my natural existence and response should be that of faith, all I am saying is, if we don’t make it a duty to live by faith, we would suffer many things, emotional depression, lack of power, fear, confusion and so many others. It is my believe that all we are required of in this world is to exhibit GOD (Faith). Faith is not positive confession, Faith is assurance and confidence to pursue a particular course of action, even when things are not going in the direction it is meant to go, Faith is the very nature of things. What made it difficult to live by faith is the fact that we were taught or we perceived faith wrongly. We were taught faith from a carnal approach. We were told that faith is only active in prayer and when we want to make large requests from God, like getting a contract, or travelling abroad(Outside Africa), buying a car... we held on to the wrong concepts, faith to us was just a means to an end unknowing to us faith was the very life we live, our daily journey is earmarked as faith. So we misunderstood faith, and like every new thing that came before it, this kind of faith with the wrong misconception, after a whilebegan to crack, gradually there were walls in our believe system, some of us it tore us apart, but we stayed in faith embracing faith, while some were totally torn from the faith, few it is that survived this barrage on their believe, they went back to their closet and humbled themselves before God, and sought his help the result was a transformation into a triumphant living.

Faith is not just walking on waters, faith is carrying God around everywhere you go, and him enabling you to do the impossible from being able to withstand persecution to commanding results 

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Newness

One of the things God did when we became born again was to give us a new heart and then he gave us a new spirit and furthermore he put His spirit within us, we might want to ask the need for him putting his spirit within us: it was simply to help us manage the new heart and unite with our new spirit

• The Law without help from the holy spirit puts man to stumble because the heart of man was desperately wicked it became important to change the heart of man from a heart of stone to that of flesh that the law of God might be written on it, but that was not all in order for us to fully walk in God's righteousness God placed or more explicitly God put his Holy Spirit within us.
• The work of the Holy Spirit in us was to make us to walk in the righteousness of God that the law demanded we do.

The Bible made it clear that the law was perfect so then why does it make people stumble?      

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. Romans 7:12

• The Law in itself is righteous but obedience to the law became a problem because of the presence of sin, sin made the law to look unrealisable. Sin had control through the law and instead of the law bringing people close to God it drew them farther, for they focused on the judgement of sin than fulfillment of the law, sin became the center of attraction instead of the law which was meant to bring us closer to God, the law was meant to show how good God was but sin seized the occasion that the law was a burden.   
•  Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful. Romans 7:13
  The law was given to bring us closer to God. if we do not sin we would be close to God, in all it's application it became important for God to help man, merely giving us the law was not sufficient, it also became necessary to enable us obey the law  from within. even for those who venture to obeying the law there is no pleasure or better still satisfaction from obeying the law because of the absence of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
• The law was good but it made God to appear untouchable, to holy to approach, God intervened and made it easier for us to obey him putting his spirit within us he makes it not only easy to access God but also to obey the law, the holy Spirit also interprets the law
• he makes us one with the law in that the law demands righteousness from us and God had made us righteous via the sacrifice of Jesus, so it becomes easy for a righteous man to walk in righteousness ( we became righteous by accepting Jesus Christ by our persona Lord and savior) where as when sin was dominant it wasn't easy. cos when you don't feel like doing good and you are asked to do good it becomes a struggle, and then after you've obeyed you don't know how long you will sustain it(doing good)
• As it was easy for Jesus to walk righteous on earth it becomes easy for us too because of the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit
• The New Creation man is a man created by God in his own image and then controlled and maintained by the holy spirit. The Holy Spirit and the spirit of Man becomes one at new birth to produce a new creation who God's Law is engraved in their heart.
  

 As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him. 1 john 2:27

ENCOUNTER

Encounter is a labor room, Encounter is the birthplace of sons, the vision of encounter is to recruit kingdom workers, it’s like a launch pad, where power is generated and ministries birthed. Encounter is an event that seeks to increase awareness on the need of more gospel workers.

Encounter started Feb 17 2010! It began with a heavenly visitation and an anointing of the head. All I remember was that before I had the encounter I was a normal boy but after the encounter I became a different man with vision and clarity. I became hungrier for God. As the vial of oil was poured upon my head by Jesus Christ I felt cold sensations and heat sensations at the same time. It was as if my flesh was alive and boiling in my body I could feel heat, but around my surroundings I felt cold. I saw Jesus I can't forget those eyes they were transparent and translucent you could see inside them and they were also glowing, His silver like whitish hair that was shining, did I also tell you that gazing at those eyes felt like gazing straight into a flame. And that I could see myself in him, I was so conscious of my weakness but he assured me of his presence that he would be with him if I stayed with him. The appearance of Jesus was like that of a refiner’s fire, as I stood in his presence I was being purified and energized. 

Since the time I had this encounter, ministry started, it was automatic! Although before then I was a Sunday school and bible study teacher and was also involved in the teens and children evangelism ministry through school visitors, but it was after then I began to minister with powers with visible manifestations and signs.

Enormous amount of energy is required for a rocket to be launched out into orbit so likewise encounter is a program soaked with the energy of God and the power of God for launching out, with diverse manifestations of the spirit, you are sure to locate your own place in the assemblage of the righteous. There is a quickening spirit that facilitates the life of God into a soul, it’s an awakening!!!

Men will awaken to their call and gifts, an in-gathering of souls for the purpose of ministry. It’s a birth place of revival, where people cry out with one voice, one soul, one thought and one purpose to God. We want to see your kingdom come Spirit Break Out!! There will be heavy manifestations of God’s presence and a quickening of God’s mind, purpose and plans into believers, it would be a taking up of arms, it would be a raising up of an army unto God to plunder the kingdom of darkness. It would be an earnest seeking of believers, a downpour of God’s glory (power), an activation of the spirit life, an embracing of spiritual principles, a building up, a major shakeup of the sinful life (carnal). It’s a Revival, a birthing of sons, an upholding of righteousness, an adoption of the spirit life and an embracing of life eternal. That mortality might be swallowed up by life, a growing unto maturity, an earnestness.

It would be said of us after encounter that the zeal of God’s house has eating us up. The reality of the life of God will open to us. We will walk in his consciousness and live in this consciousness. We will be helped; our souls will be refreshed because of this Light. We would no longer wander in darkness because the life of God will be revealed unto us and we would embrace it. Encounter is a fire conference, a lighting of torches, a setting off of flames, a setting ablaze, an ignition and spread of holy flames from the altar down to the pews. An empowerment, a victorious living, a triumphant life, a journey into Holiness, a growing deeper, a burrowing of roots, a sp read of tentacles, an assimilation, a bearing of fruits, a reward of diligence and years of earnest seeking. The power of God would be so mighty to release gifts, ministries, mantles and to deliver men. It would be a reward of faithfulness. A journey into God, a life of pursuit, a reward of excellence, an habitation of Heaven’s Host, a breaking forth, a harbinger of success, a distribution of wealth, a entering into prosperity.

Encounter would be all that God wants it to be. There will be an increase in finance, wealth and prosperity for the work of the ministry there would be a spread of millionaires after this meeting because God would entrust his resources to those he knows would make good use of it, television ministries would be birthed radio stations, would be launched. The life of God would be celebrated. O! Holiness would be our watchword. A life of purity will be exalted, nations will be birthed, prophecies would be released, the deaf will hear, the dumb will speak, the lame would walk and the dead would be raised up back to life, there would be a perfecting of the saints an everlasting reward, a revealing of secrets, destinies would be launched. Mothers will be born, there would be a holy hunger and a reverence for God and for sacred things, instruments of worship will be consecrated, boldness and confidence would increase. Encounter would be a koinonia, a place of intimacy.

 Make sure you are at Encounter 2015, that’s all I can say! Let the countdown begin! As at when this write up was published 73 more days to encounter Feb 5 – 8 2015.

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100 DAYS PRAYER

Join me as I pray for persecuted Christians in the North, in Iraq and all over the world, but the major source of news reaching us comes from Iraq where a guerilla Islamic group known as Isis as taking over a part of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, this group are advancing into turkey and they also have plans of overthrowing Israel. Their major victims have being the Christians, there have being massive slaughter people are being buried alive, crucifixions, hangings, be-headings and even blood sacrifices; Christians. I have seen series of Death that I had never seen before even headless Bodies.

These sight is nauseating if we don't pray for the persecuted we all might soon fall into the same category, especially those in Nigeria. Boko Haram is tailing the line of Isis, this is not the time to lay blames or speak against any one. this is the time to repent, seek and be humble and pray.

Join me for the next #100 Days as we pray against Persecution especially In Iraq and Northern Nigeria. Boko Haram must be stopped and Isis must be destroyed. The Lord began to show me that Isis got their devilish inspiration from Boko Haram. The way Boko Haram laid siege on Nigeria gave Isis the inspiration to establish an Islamic state. And the way they are going about it is radical, they are taking over any land they enter into and they are well on the verge of taking over the rest of Iraq.

This group is more brutal than Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Hamas or any other terrorist group put together, they don't negotiate or take hostage, once they know you are not for them the next is to kill and destroy, they are very merciless.

Christians unite wake up, Let's pray, Let's Join hands together and save our nation, and save the church and also the world. This is a wake up call, there is a major shaking up. And it requires that we act fast. When Jesus spoke in his prayer at John 17, he said Father that they all may be one. He kept saying this and I wondered what this meant? what is dis power in unity? I realised that this unity is a bigger voice for evangelisation or soul winning than any individual anointing a man can  carry. It became clear that God would have us unite more than what our individual minds can fathom, unity not compromise.

In becoming united we would speak with one voice and the same authority when we see our brother in pain, we would all move to help such a one. When we do this, when we do this i.e speak with the same voice and authority, then the world will know God and that Jesus Christ was truly sent by him.

With authority he raised the dead, with authority he parted the red sea. When we are united such authority will be manifested through us and the world will definitely know that we are his own. So they will seek the truth and seek to know and follow Jesus because of such level of power and demonstrations. What are the things making Headlines in our News is it not war, bloodshed, hunger, famine, even sports, parties and events, when Jesus was alive he made headlines. When we become united we would make headlines because the world would not stop to talk about us. Anywhere they go! they see headlines made by Christians. They have no choice but to report it, The world is yet to see the unity of believers.

Our evangelism would become more effective. The lord has raised us up as disciples to be an example unto the world and so that by this sign, the world may come to know Jesus and believe and be saved.

By this many more sons are brought to glory. This is the power of unity so let's unite.

There is power in Prayer, I tell you the truth even me I just discovered it's potency. I've been receiving Prayer requests and testimonies about answers, Healing. Breakthrough, School Fees being paid, Jobs being secured, contracts being awarded, projects being completed. These are Just a few of the miracles the lord has done in the past one month yea! One Month!!

You see prayer of itself is not the power but it is the life that backs the request and the authority that is being used to offer such a request.

I say life because, without carrying the mindset of Christ Prayer becomes a wish. Yea! A mere wish it is the life(Zoe consciousness) that gives strength to the request or petition, for example look at Peter in Acts 3 at the beautiful gate he said such as I have I give to you, In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. He was confident of the life he carried and of it's potency. He did not just pray and sit back, he pulled him up and helped him to his feet because he was so sure that the man would walk, because he knew that life had gone into him as he spoke. How sure are you. Are you hoping or wishing, once we start to pray for this #100 Days, I tell you we have become sure and certain that persecution will stop and cease in Iraq and the North. We are no longer Hoping once we embark on this Journey. And I say It with a certain confidence Just as Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden were destroyed Isis and Boko Haram will be destroyed. However this can only be hastened By the agitations of certain Believers.

Thanks and God Bless I remain a brother and a fellow servant of our Lord Jesus Christ.

U can contact me via twitter: @pstdebodunamis Or mail me: debooyelade@gmail.com.

UNITY

Christians unite wake up, Let's pray, Let's Join hands together and save our nation, and save the church and also the world. This is a wake up call, there is a major shaking up. And it requires that we act fast. When Jesus spoke in his prayer in John 17, He said Father that they all may be one. He kept saying this and I wondered what this meant? what is this power in unity? I realised that this unity is a bigger voice for evangelization or soul winning than any individual anointing a man can  carry. It became clear that God would have us unite more than what our individual minds can fathom, unity not compromise!!!

In becoming united we would speak with one voice and the same authority when we see our brother in pain, we would all move to help such a one. When we do this, i.e speak with the same voice and authority, then the world will know God and that Jesus Christ was truly sent by him.

With authority he raised the dead, with authority he parted the red sea. When we are united such authority will be manifested through us and the world will definitely know that we are his own. So they will seek the truth and seek to know and follow Jesus because of such level of power and demonstrations. What are the things making Headlines in our News is it not war, bloodshed, hunger, famine, even sports, parties and events.

When Jesus was alive he made headlines. When we become united we would make headlines too because the world would not stop to talk about us. Anywhere they go! they see headlines made by christians. They have no choice but to report it, The world is yet to see the unity of believers.

Our evangelism would become more effective. The Lord has raised us up as disciples to be an example unto the world and so that by this sign, the world may come to know Jesus and believe and be saved. By this many more sons are brought to glory. This is the power of unity so let's unite.

Youths can't help but be united, because it is dis lack of unity that killed our Fathers, everyone wanting his own territories, they are all doing great works but no one records it because the miracles are localised, u just imagine Anglican publishes the things done in the catholic church all for the praise of God's Holy name and then Catholic publishes the works of Methodist and the miracles being done in the charismatic circles, if everyone begins to emphasise on a particular thing. It would become more magnified and pronounced, and then more people are aware of that particular thing being done because of it's widespread reach and popularity. The world media would have no option but to broadcast this events also. We can't afford to joke or mess around with sectarianism again, in this our age and generation it would be a deadly mistake we all have to lay down our arms to serve the master and only pick it up for him alone and not for our own personal business. Enough of us seeking the spotlight and wanting to become superstars, if the spotlight is on us then the glory will be diminished, but if it's on Jesus it would be magnified. When our missions and ministries truly focus on Jesus we would experience true unity because we would no longer just focus on what is happening in our ministry, but we would focus on what is happening around us and give glory and praise to God and if everyone does this, God will be magnified the more and the Gospel will spread. I believe this is the way. Enough of self centred and personalised ministry, we should all seek to record and report what's happening in the body of Christ this should be our greatest passion.

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