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WHAT WE DON'T KNOW

WHAT WE DON'T KNOW We know how to woo the opposite sex into a relationship with us not how to win them into a relationship with Christ. We know how make up and dress up but we don't know how to put on Christ We know how to prepare for our future but not how to prepare for eternity We know we must eat everyday at least thrice but not pray and study God's word at least ones. We know how to build mansions on earth but not in heaven We've mastered the art of doing the bad and evil but to do good we know not. Jer 4:22 "For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are silly children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge." Its only foolish children that are masters of evil and ignoramus in good Don't be a foolish and silly child of God. Master the act of doing good # JustThinkin Pst Promise Ikpe

the workings of pains

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THE WORKING OF PAIN 2 Cor. 12:9 She never knew!!!... Though faithful she is unto God. A virgin she has kept herself Her love for God has made her engage in full-time service unto the Lord AND YET she is single She has had multiple heartbreaks. Men would disappoint her over and over again at the close to marriage with no genuine reason Her age mates are all married with kids From time to time she is been derided by married women who accuses her of making advances at their husbands. SHE IS ALONE; she gets no love text from anyone SHE IS LONELY; no man desires her BUT she is anointed and she doesn't know why When she preaches, sinners are saved When she prays, people are delivered and When she lays her hands, they are healed I KNOW WHY God's grace is supplied during those moments of stressfulness and His power is activated in us during those times of great pains WHEN YOU ARE PRAYING FOR THE GRACE AND POWER OF GOD, be ready for the humiliation of the devil; that'

THE PLEASURE OF SIN DOESN'T EASE THE GUILT

THE PLEASURE OF SIN DOESN’T EASE THE GUILT Enjoy the wealth and forget how it came his friend advised him; they’ve just successfully defrauded one man of his money and right now, they are in cloud nine. When James started feeling guilty, his friend told him to enjoy the money and party that the guilt would disappear in the face of beers and parties and girls and clean-cars etc. well these seems to work on his guilt for a while but after he became sober and the girls were gone, the guilt resurfaced. What if the man that was defrauded had killed himself for his loses? What if he got defrauded too seeing that whatsoever a man sows he must reap etc. the more thoughts like these continued to haunt him the more he drank more wine, invited more girls, went to clubs  etc. and yet the guilt wouldn’t go away. I looked at him and told him, there was a man in the bible who thought women would curb the guilt and got more than a thousand of them yet they didn’t, he thought having the best of

ITS SURE TO COME

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ITS SURE TO COME He promised to give me a car after I passed my O-level but when I did, he was joking; he never meant to give me any car… She promised to partner with my ministry if I should write an official letter requesting for her partnership, but when I did, she was only bragging, she never meant to partner with the ministry… He promised to pay me monthly if I should work for him, but when I did, he was lying, he never meant to be paying me, only wanted to use me till he finds a more suitable replacement… The portion of Jacob is not like them… Jer. 10:15 our God is ‘…Faithful and True…’ Rev. 19:11 When God promises, He delivers. If your help is coming from God and not from men, then it’s sure to come. When God promised to add every other thing after you seek Him first, He makes it good. God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?  N

*THEY ARE CHRISTIANS, THEIR JOBS AREN'T*

*THEY ARE CHRISTIANS, THERE JOBS AREN'T* *_ They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work._* Titus 1:16 Yes, you are born again and spirit filled, but is your means of earning Christlike? How is your business been transacted? What do you trade? How do you treat your junior staffs? Do you pay your workers? Do you defend the guilty? Do you abort babies? Do you sell fake and sub-standard products? If you work denies your faith, you are still far from the Kingdom of God Be a great christian Do an honest job Pay your staff before you pay yourself Trade quality products Don't lie to your customers Don't break the spirit of understanding Don't give or take bribe Don't sell what is sinful to use If you cant preach while doing your job because you'll be compromising yourself then you need repent and change job God bless you Pastor Promise Ikpe Share the word

THE CHILD OF GOD AND JOBLESSNESS

THE MINISTERS CHAPEL INTERNATIONAL TOPIC: THE CHILD OF GOD AND JOBLESSNESS TEXT: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Eph. 2:10 INTRODUCTION: We live in the time and days when the government has totally failed in the provision of jobs, and when she has failed in the payment of salaries. Many are home jobless and looking very frustrated. In times like this, what should the believer do when he doesn’t have a job, stay idle? This study will help the believer know what to do. QUESTIONS/DISCUSSIONS: 1.     GOD HAS CALLED US TO TRAIN OUR MINDS: Study to shew thyself approved unto God...2 Tim 2:15 . We must not be idle even when we don’t have money to get formal educations, we must engage our minds in training. Read books (there are lots of books to help you have you mind trained in knowledge) and acquire skills (visit skills acquisition centers and volunteer through in exchange for the

MY COUNSEL TO STUDENTS WHO FAILED THEIR EXAMS

MY COUNSEL TO STUDENTS WHO FAILED THEIR EXAMS I was called to address some group of secondary school students who just failed their o-level exams. I stood before them not knowing what to say, but as I looked at them compassion welled up in my heart for them then what I said next caused them to cheer up. A mother asked me afterwards, what did you said to my daughter, she came home and for the first time after the day her result came out, she smiled, and we discussed and laughed like nothing is wrong. I told them that I was good in matrix, calculus, differentiation and permutations etc. and I’ll rather face an additional Maths problem than write a 450 words essay. In fact, I failed my essays over and over again in school. But today, many think I write the best essays and I have edited for several high school English teachers and proof read many literatures. I looked at them as they wonder the connection of what I was saying to their exam results; then I continued, your exam

WHO HAS NOT LIFTED HIS SOUL UNTO VANITY

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He evangelizes with the saints against alcoholism, yet he owns a bar where alcohols and beers are sold. He campaigns with other believers against smoking and taking hard drugs, yet he retails cigarettes and drugs He preaches with the children of God that stealing and lying leads to hell, yet he would give bribe and market his business through falsehoods. He boldly declares with other children of the faith that indecent dressings are seductive and would bring down weak souls into immorality yet he tailors and sells such nude fashions. He hates wickedness and preaches against despitefully using people in church, yet he would pay his staffs and treats his house maid like a no-body. He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity...  Ps 24: 4 The believer who hasn’t lifted his soul unto vanity i.e. compromised his faith with his actions and means of earnings would receive the blessings from the Lord. Whatsoever we do that speaks dir

THE INSATIABLE NATURE OF MAN

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THE INSATIABLE NATURE OF MAN The more you feed your carnal desires, the more powerful that it will become and the more out of control Those who have uncontrollable carnal desires never started that way: there were times they could control it ...the eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the ear filled with hearing. Eccle 1:9 When you didn't begin, you'll never be overpowered by it. It takes a taste of alcohol to be bound to alcoholism: don't taste It takes a moment of indulgence to become addicted to porn, masturbation and other forms of immoralities: don't indulge It takes a lie to become a chain liar: don't lie It takes one sin to be bound to sin: don't sin There is no cravings of the flesh that we may indulge in that'll leave us satisfied instead we'll be bound by such cravings. There is nothing like a one time sin, flee from thy iniquity. God bless you. Pastor Promise Ikpe Share The word

WIFE'S BEATING

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WIFE’S BEATING (my letter to married men) One of the most beautiful but complicated creatures God made is the woman and part of what women produce unconsciously is troubles; they are never satisfied and they don’t even know why they are not and the strangest part of it is that women will want something they don’t know and will be angry with their husbands for not providing that which they can’t define and they will keep talking and talking till some husbands use slap which ma y result to fighting and, other husbands just run away from the home but God gave us the solution to this problem in His word. Col 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. When the woman starts making troubles, she unconsciously wants to hear or see any action from her husband showing that he loves her (no woman has strong enough retentive memory to remember for long that she is loved by her husband therefore her body yearns continually for reassurance and that desire to be reassured is di

serving God yet suffering

Someone wrote I thought God will love me if I stop sinning but I was wrong; He brought pain and people who caused me pain into my life. I aren't serving God again This is my reply Has the pain stopped now that you've stopped serving God? Have the people who causes you pain repented from such? God doesn't love us because of what we've done or didn't do, He loved us while we were yet sinners. Christ said, as long as we are in the world, we'll have tribulations but we shouldn't be afraid because He has overcome the world for us. Our world was handed over to the devil by Adam in Genesis thus he is the god of this world. God is good and the devil is bad and they haven't changed roles and won't. The devil is responsible for all of the evil in this world because he is the god of it and men are wicked to one another because the devil had filled their heart and mind. God gave us the following to help us heal from our pains 1. Prayer: Christ

IS THERE HOPE FOR THAT CHRISTIAN?

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IS THERE HOPE FOR THAT CHRISTIAN? Who is positive to HIV, suffering from cancer and other medically incurable diseases? What about the Christian who’s spouse has moved on and married another thus cementing the total death of her marital life What about those believers in poor countries where there is no job and the government is doing nothing about them? Or the woman who had lost her womb or past menopause, will she ever have children though she believes in Christ? But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings…  Mal. 4:2 Our text says, Christ is arising with healing in His wings, yes there is hope for that Christian to be healed of all those supposedly incurable diseases, there is hope for the marriage of that Christian daughter whose husband has moved on (if God told us not to remarry after we are married unless our spouses are dead, it’s because He intends resurrecting our marriages)  and there is hope for that woman