The Church is not the Building, The Building is not the Church

The Church is not the Building, The Building is not the Church

Building the biggest,  largest or costliest auditorium for your church means nothing to Almighty God if His Holy Spirit is absent from your building. 

As my mother of blessed memory, Mrs. Gladys Unuamaighiuwa Eke repeated again and again that THE HOLY SPIRIT of God does not dwell in the house built by hands; but dwells in the house built in the hearts of the true believers of God.

It is still baffling to me that those who claim to be ministers of God who have repeatedly read the command of our MESSIAH JESUS Christ clearly gave as our mission on earth which is the Great Commission as written in Matthew 28:19-20:

19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.": 

Yet they are engaged in childish and foolish bragging rights to who has built the largest church building or auditorium in the world!

They are competing for the Guinness Book of World Records instead of competing for the lost and wandering souls of the confused and ignorant humans our Lord JESUS Christ commanded us to find and guide to redemption and salvation.

I ask them, how much have you spent on evangelism in the mission fields compared to how much you have spent on building your gangantic auditoriums?

How much have you spent on charity compared to your gangantic auditoriums?

What determines the size of your church is not the size of the building, but the numbers of the true believers who fellowship and worship Almighty God in Spirit and in Truth.

John 4:24:

"God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

John 8:32

"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

SHALOM!

- Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,

The Publisher/Editor,

The Rhema Blog via #Google

Since 2005

The Scent of the Holy Spirit 2

The Scent of the Holy Spirit 2

Last week, in my sermon on "The Scent of the Holy Spirit",  I started from the establishment of the statement that without the communion of the Holy Spirit, you cannot have any relationship with Almighty God. 

I know that for the majority of those who claim to be believers and the unbelievers, talking about the scent of the Holy Spirit may be strange or unheard of, because they don't know of the existence and so don't have the experience.

Yes, the Holy Spirit has a scent and it is not fiction.

Please, let me state it that it is not the  burning of different colours of candles and incences in worship. You can burn all the colours of candles and incences in the world, but you don't have any relationship with the Holy Spirit.

Almighty God has nose and nostrils and they are not for fancy, they are for sniffing and smelling odours and savours in heaven, heavens and on the earth. The scent of the Holy Spirit is the scent of the living Almighty God and the only scent in heaven; the scent of the holiness of God  Almighty God loves good, pleasant and sweet smelling odours and incences as written in Exodus 29:25:

"And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the Lord: it is an offering made by fire unto the Lord."

But only in sacred hearts of holy worship of true believers and not in sinful hearts of unholiness of fake believers in whited sepulchres which millions of people have been mistaking for churches of God. Many churches in Nigeria and the rest of the world are whited sepulchres with occultic shrines behind the pulpits and in the closets in the bedrooms of the fake pastors, fake bishops, false prophets and other fake ministers with fake followers.

But as I quoted in the first part of The Scent of the Holy Spirit, it is written in Matthew 7:16-20:

16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."

Fake ministers can only deceive fake believers and fake followers. Because, true believers of God have the anointing of the Holy Spirit and the gift  of discernment and the Word of Knowledge to know the truth and discern the falsehood in any cleric and church. You cannot fool a true believer in God.

It is written in 1 John 4:1-5:

4 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them."

Now, how, where and when does the scent of the Holy Spirit manifest on earth?  It manifests when there is pure and true love of God.  As it is written in 

John 14:23 :

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him."

This is final. If you truly love God, you will honour and obey His commandments and He will love you too. My one and only Father and Almighty Father does not have space and time for antagonisms, bitterness, hatred, evil envy, evil jealousy, greed and shenanigans among humans and fake believers and fake ministers. Where there is no true love, there is no God. And He does not accept the prayers, offerings and the tithes of those with antagonisms, bitterness, hatred, evil jealousy, evil envy, greed  and shenanigans. He is my Father and I know Him and He knows me. 

My prayers are for those who don't know Him should humble themselves to obey His commandments and then you will know Him. Without obedience to His commandments, you cannot know God. So, when He sees your obedience more than your sacrifice, He will manifest His holy presence in His infinite glory in your life. And when you pray, sing and worship Him in obedience and repentance of pure and true love , He will embrace you in the awesome beauty of His holiness with the scent of His Holy Spirit as it is written in Revelation 8:4:

"And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand."

SHALOM.

- Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,

The Publisher/Editor,

The Rhema Blog

The Scent of the Holy Spirit 1

The Scent of the Holy Spirit 1

The Holy Spirit is the essence of the existence of the Almighty God and it is supreme and infinite in space and time.

You cannot know God without His Holy Spirit. Anyone who claims or says he or she knows God, but does not have the Holy Spirit is a LIAR. 

Many of the so called pastors, bishops and ministers in Nigeria and the rest of the world are FAKE. But tragically, majority of their followers are also FAKE. 

Fake pastors have fake Followers.

Because, our MESSIAH JESUS Christ said as it is written in Matthew 7:16:

" Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?"

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Matthew 22:1-14:

1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,

2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,

3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.

4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.

5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:

6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.

7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.

9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:

12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

14 For many are called, but few are chosen.

He Provides A Shelter in the Storm

HALLELUJAH! 

Present residence in Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria since September, 2020. Safe from the floods of the torrential rainfalls in the stormy weather.

Near the University of Lagos and Yaba College of Technology. I thank Almighty God for the hygienic and safe residence, and providing the money for the rent. Yes, it is not cheap, but trust Almighty God JEHOVAH JIREH and  JEHOVAH Ebenezer to provide the money for the payments of the rents weekly and monthly. Since He has seen me through the storms thus far triumphantly and victoriously, He will surely lift me up to higher grounds of greater heights in the mighty name of our MESSIAH JESUS Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever. AMEN. I can pray, praise and worship HIM and shout loud HALLELUJAH and nobody has complained that my joyful noise is disturbing him or her.  

Baba modupe o!

HALLELUJAH!

If You Truly Know God, You Will Not Dare To Disobey Him

Ephesians 6:12:

"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places."

1 John 4:1-5:
4 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
² Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
³ And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
⁴ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
⁵ They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

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They claim to know Him,
But they disobey Him.
They lie, because they don't know Him
If only they know Him, they will not dare to disobey His commandments.
If you don't obey His commandments, you don't know Him.
You are  deceiving yourself.

Proverbs 8:17:
" I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me."

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"18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. AMEN."

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No Human is Ordinary!

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No Human is Ordinary!
None of us is ordinary, because our Creator is not ordinary.
He is Extraordinary and He made us in His image and after His likeness as it is written in Genesis 1:26:

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."

We are Extraordinary beings created by an Extraordinary God.
Therefore, don't settle for less.
Refuse to be ordinary.
Don't let anyone or anything devalue you!
It is rebellion against Almighty God to disregard and downgrade your extraordinary status of the image and likeness of God.
Anyone who looks down at another person as an ordinary fellow is an enemy of God 

Our MESSIAH JESUS Christ confirmed our Extraordinary status  as it is written in Matthew 5:14-16:
"¹⁴ Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

¹⁵ Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
¹⁶ Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."
Then His anointed apostle, Saint Peter said in 1 Peter 2:9:
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;"

Refuse to be kept or to be left behind in backwardness and darkness by anyone or anything.
We are extraordinary sons and daughters of our Extraordinary Almighty Father God!
We are the Princes and Princesses of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords who reigns in supreme majesty of the Holy Trinity in Eternity.
Manifest the best in the extraordinary image and likeness of Almighty God.

- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,
Publisher/Editor, The Rhema Blog
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Sunday Sermon From The DOT NATION

Sunday Sermon From The DOT NATION

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Every Battle Is For Freedom. 💪

Today is very important in American history...in our war for liberty and freedom. Americans have a holy hatred for tyrants, dictatorship and destroyers of the human will. That’s why we willingly confront terrorism... anywhere we find it. But, the True Secret of Life-Power is using Divine weaponry in earthly environments.

Scripture Reference

2 Corinthians 10:4 "For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds."

- By Dr. Mike Murdock, 

The Wisdom Center,

Dallas, Texas, USA.

Happy New Month of July! Month of Fulfilment!

#thursdayexaltations✨💕

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HALELUJAH!

HAPPY NEW MONTH OF JULY TO THE INFINITE SUPREME GLORY OF OUR ONE AND ONLY ALMIGHTY GOD IN OUR ONE AND ONLY MESSIAH JESUS CHRIST. AMEN!

This the 7th month of the year of our Lord, 2021.

This is the month of Fulfilment of unfilled promises for this is the month of harvest for all your labour in the vineyard of the Lord and for all the true believers who have obeyed the commandments of Almighty God and the Revelations of The Beatitudes and 1 Corinthians 13.

My prayer for you in this new month is that the new month bring you new and exciting news that will gladden your heart today, all through the month and beyond. And may this beautiful new month bring you peace of mind and body. Happy New Month!

AMEN!

HALLELUJAH!