Open Letter To Churches on the Idolatry of Worshipping the Dead

Open Letter To Churches on the Idolatry of Worshipping the Dead 

Churches, especially the majority of the Pentecostal denominations in Nigeria must stop their idolatry of worshipping the dead by delaying burials of churchgoers who passed away for weeks, months and even years, because of ungodly reasons such as not having enough money for the burial ceremony.

It is ungodly and wrong to have fund raising to hire buses for burial ceremony with eating and drinking and sewing uniforms when your church has failed to raise money for evangelism and charity which our Lord JESUS Christ commanded us in the Great Commission to make disciples of all nations as He said in 

Matthew 28:19 ►

"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,"

►

OBEY THE COMMANDMENT OF JESUS CHRIST as He said in 1 John 2:4: "If anyone says, "I know Him," but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him."

Having public ceremony for the burial of the dead is ungodly and abomination in true Christianity.

This is the idolatry of worshipping the dead by useless ceremony that is against the commandments of Almighty God.

Stop all the abominations against the Word of God.

I have seen a church having more fund raising of money for burials than evangelism and charity.

And the ministers lie that they are led by the Holy Spirit.

Which holy spirit?

A church will raise more than one million naira for a burial ceremony of a churchgoer that they failed to support financially when he was alive and struggling to make ends meet.

Then you spend hundreds of thousands of naira for his burial.

Is this true Christianity or false religion in the camouflage of Christianity.

The worst is the church that prays for the dead.

Stop the charade of the parade of fake Christianity in the idolatry of burial ceremonies.

The dead don't need your ceremonies, prayers and tears.

Mark 12:27-

 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

Solemnly mourn with the bereaved and comfort them as much as you can with love.

- From The Rhema Blog,

https://therhema.blogspot.com/

Obeying the Great Commission of preaching, publishing, sharing and spreading the Word of God online since 2005.

You Cannot Give What You Don't Have

Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,

Wednesday Afternoon, September 28, 2022.
Lagos, Nigeria.

"I do not see people through the eyes of the world.
I see people through the eyes of God.
- Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,
https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima

When Almighty God said He wired me differently, I did not understand.
Then He also said that He has known me before the creation of the Earth and said I would not understand.

I have asked them as our Lord JESUS Christ asked the Samaritan woman fetching water at the well to give Him water to drink, because He was thirsty. She took time in giving Him the water not  knowing that the water belonged to Him and He is the Living of Eternal Life. But she was Ignorant of this fact until He revealed Himself to her.

Ask. Ask and ask and keep on asking for water to drink in a land full of water and yet the majority of the people are still thirsty.
Ask. Ask and ask as many people as you can reach.
For in asking, they will reveal their true nature to you.
For it is written in John 5:7-8 -

⁷ For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

⁸ And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one."

DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

You cannot give what you don't have.
And lest we forget, it is not money
It is Grace.
You can have all the money in the whole world and yet you will not have grace.
Without grace, you cannot love God.
Money cannot buy grace.
It is the free gift Almighty God.
The only qualification for grace is Faith in God. To believe that you can receive when you ask.
You will receive more grace in return for every act of grace.
The greatest form of grace is the one you give and share with absolute strangers and those you don't have any friendship and relationship with.
You are giving to God.

If you are unwilling to give to someone who has given you or not you are evil and ungrateful to God.
There are no excuses.

If you cannot improve the lives of others, you are worthless to the earth.
If you come into the life of someone and the person does gain anything from you, you are worthless.

- Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,
Publisher/Editor,
The Rhema Blog

Don't Mistake Mere CHURCHGOERS for CHRISTIANS

 Don't Mistake Mere CHURCHGOERS for CHRISTIANS

Only those who obey the commandments of God are true CHRISTIANS.
Many fake pastors and fake prophets are deceiving millions of people in Africa.

True people of God see things through the eyes of God and not through the eyes of the world.

Powerless pastors are fake pastors.
Whoever makes prophecies that fail to  come to pass is a false prophet.
Majority of the pastors in Nigeria and the rest of Africa are fake pastors and majority of the so called prophets are false prophets who I exposed in my book, "The Prophet Lied" distributed by Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other booksellers worldwide.

Fake pastors and false prophets can only deceive fake Christians. And majority of those claiming to be "Christians" in Nigeria and the rest of Africa are fake Christians without any relationship with the Holy Spirit of Almighty God.
Being emotional in prayer, praise and worship does not mean you are spiritual in the Holy Spirit.
True believers are ruled by the Word of God and not by the ways of the world.
They have eyes, but they cannot see the things of God.
They have ears, but they cannot hear from God.
They listen, but they don't learn.

What fake pastors do in their closets are opposite to what they preach on the pulpits.
Pastors who beat their wives and cheat their wives.
Pastors who maltreat their servants.
Pastors who collect blood money
Pastors whose churches are nothing but whited sepulchres.

Our MESSIAH JESUS Christ already exposed them as 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.

- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,
Publisher/Editor,
The Rhema Blog
since 2005.

God Is The Master Giver

God Is The Master Giver

He is your total Source for every good thing you want to happen in your life. However, you must have the sensitivity to know when you need Him, the humility to pursue His mercy and the urgency to come boldly to Him. Many do not believe that God wants them to prosper. This is one of biggest lies of satan.

     God Wants To Reveal To You Where Your Financial Provisions Are Located. He proved this to the prophet Elijah. First, God fed him through the ravens that brought him bread and meat every morning and evening. Then, God provided a continuous supply of food through the incredible faith of the widow of Zarephath (1 Kings 17:16).

     God Is Concerned With Every Financial Crisis You Encounter. He will give you instructions how to turn it around. He always promises prosperity and blessing to those who are obedient to His laws and principles. You must realize that you are already prospering. Your talents...energy...friendships...ideas...blessings of every kind...are all gifts from God.

     You Are A Walking Warehouse of Seeds. Most people do not even realize this. They have no idea how many Seeds they contain that can be planted into the lives of others. Stop and inventory your own Seeds. Stop focusing on what you do not have. Something You Have Been Given Will Create Anything Else You Have Been Promised.

     Every Seed Is A Golden Door From Your Present Into Your Future. Ask The Holy Spirit to show you what you have been given, supernaturally and naturally, to plant into the lives of others. It will be one of the greatest steps of faith you will ever take in your life...faith births expectation. Expectation is the Master Secret to your Harvest.

     God Is Not Through Blessing You Today. Tomorrow is not here yet. You can still make it anything you want it to be. The key to your Future is in your hand. You already have enough to create what you do not have.

     You can write a new page in your life. You can create any Tomorrow you want. You already have in your hand everything it takes to make Tomorrow what God desires for it to be. This is one of the most powerful truths you can ever embrace in your life.

The Poor Are The Largest Givers in Nigerian Churches, But The Most Disregarded

 I once took a homeless young man I met on the street to a nearby church I was attending for us to help him. The ushers frowned at me as I led him into the church. 

During the church service, I knelt down and closed my eyes to pray and by the time I opened my eyes after the prayers, I did not see him by my side again.

I asked the ushers for him and they said he had left.

"Why did you allow him to leave? He was feeling feverish from malaria. You should not have allowed him to leave. We should have cared for him," I said.

They just frowned and did not reply me.

If he had been a rich man, they would have led him to the front row in front of the pulpit to sit down as a VIP for the pastor or bishop to see the Big Fish they have caught in their net.

To the churches in Nigeria, the poor are liabilities with their poverty who cannot give large offerings and cannot pay big tithes. But the rich will give the church large offerings and pay big tithes for the pastors and bishops to buy SUVs and live in mansions and later buy private jets and become realtors of the largest estates in the country; but neglecting the poor who are often abandoned either as homeless destitute or living in  crowded ghettos.  But unknown to these worldly pastors and bishops, the poor majority in the church are actually the largest givers to Almighty God, because He calculates what we give by the percentage of what we have as our Messiah JESUS Christ showed us in the lesson of the Widow's Mite written in Mark 12:41-44:

"41 And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.

42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.

43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:

44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living."

The Churches in Nigeria prefer the large offerings and tithes of the rich without asking for the sources of their riches, whether from human rituals,  stolen money from the public sector or fraudulent practices in the private sector.

Have you ever heard of or seen pastors and bishops picking up homeless destitute and giving them shelter like the Good Samaritan in the Holy Bible?

Majority of the greedy Shylock landlords and landladies and estate agents in Nigeria are among the regular churchgoers and best friends of the pastors and bishops. 

The most corrupt Nigerians are not the pagans, but those who claim to be "Christians"  and "Muslims"  who fellowship and worship in the churches and mosques. But they cannot fool Almighty God. For the Shepherd knows his real sheep and the wolves in sheep clothing. 

Who are the bandits and terrorists on rampage in Nigeria? They are the  underprivileged children of the poor destitute who the administrators of the government, pastors of the churches and Imams a of the mosques cheated, deceived and exploited over the years without good education, without good accommodation and without welfare.

When you maltreat even your dogs, they will one day turn around to bark and bite you 

For Nigeria, the Chickens have come home to roost.

- By Ekeyerengozi Michael Chima, author of "The Prophet Lied", "In the House of Dogs 🐕" and other books distributed by Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Tower Books and other booksellers worldwide.