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DEALING WITH LOSSES 2 Jesus was losing money to Judas Iscariot his treasurer and before then he had lost his father Joseph. Though he was helping others who had lost health, wealth, loved ones and their right standing with God yet he too had suffered the loss of His dear father and was suffering the loss of his wealth The best way to deal with loss is to help those you can recover from whatsoever loss they are facing. Don’t because you are suffering make others hinder help from those you can help alleviate their suffering. Some people take comfort in the failure of others because they failed, in the loss of others because of their loss. If you are envying others, you’ll contribute to their loss because of your loss. This is a wrong attitude and it will by no means help you deal with your loss. If you want to overcome your loss, begin by helping others that you can deal with their losses. Despite the loss Christ was enduring, He fulfilled His purpose, yes, your financial as...

WHEN THE WORD TRIES YOU David was on his own caring for his father’s sheep contentedly when Samuel came with some word from God that he’ll be the king of Israel. After he was anointed the next thing that happened to him was afflictions and trials; Saul started seeking for his death, his brothers hated him, he began to live in caves, he became a wanted man not just in Israel but also in surrounding nations. Sometimes he had to pretend he was a mad man to survive, he had to live in shame and if he was someone like us, after waiting 7 years from the day God promised him the kingship of Israel, he would say, God, let’s forget this me being a king stuff, since the day you told me about it, things had only gotten worse for me. He would had also said to God, let’s disregard this throne stuff, I was better being a shepherd for me father, at least I wasn’t living in shame, pretending to be insane just to survive, and passing my nights in caves and living daily in the fear of death as my f...

THAT’S WHY IT’S NARROW Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.  Matt 7:1 When the devil is leading someone into destruction, the path is always wide and easily treaded; the relationship that would led you to doom, comes so rosy, the business that will destroy goes so smoothly and with huge margin of profit and the manner of life that would damn you looks so fun-filled and packed with excitement etc. which would soon fade into oblivion When God is leading you, the pathways might be through the storms, the lion’s den, floods, barren-land and fire etc. the path isn’t always great but the destination is. The right spouse may seem poor or ugly, the right marriage might start with lots of troubles, the right business may not command profits, the right kind of life may bring you reproach etc. but not for long Don’t not envy the sinners who may look like they are better, they are not walking through the narro...

WHY YOU CAN’T DO THE RIGHT THING Your story may be more of failure; failure to do the right things and failures to do that which will benefit you in life and in righteousness. Praying and fasting is hard to do, avoiding the lusts of the flesh is difficult, studying God’s word is never coming by, avoiding immorality is like pouring water on a rock and all that is good and beneficial to your well being it’s not happening instead You find yourself stuck in the wrong things; addicted to porno, unable to study your books, tied to the wrong relationships, bored over thing that would discipline you to be responsible in life and the list goes on. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.  Gal. 5:17 When we are in the flesh, we can’t do the right thing; we’ll find ourselves tied in doing the wrong things. We may repent over and over again and yet fai...

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 bes...

*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

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...

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

*WHY WE SIN* We know sinners go to hell where their torment would last from generations to generations endlessly We know that fornicators and masturbators and sexual-immorals won’t inherit the kingdom of God. We know that liars and fraudsters and cheats and hypocrites and abortionist and murderers would be cast into hellfire where there would be weeping and gnashing of teeth forever yet many Christian folks still sin, they still transgress God’s law over and over again and you might want to know why *Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.  Eccles 8:11* There is a sentence on all evil-doers and because of the love and patience of God that these sinners, such sentence is not carried out speedily and these have made many to continue in sin. There were days when sin attracts instant punishment; when Achan was stoned to death, the earth opened up for Korah and co. to fall st...

*IT ALL STARTED BY HER LUST FOR FRUIT?* The woes in the world today; the disease, the pains, the wars, the murders, and the chaos etc. all started when Eve couldn’t resist her urge to take a bite from the forbidden tree after the devil has drawn her attention to it. _And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof…_Gen 3:6 Its forbidden to have sex when you are yet married and now the devil has drawn your attention to a well curved lady or a masculine looking guy and as you keep looking you want to touch and indulge and the more you kept looking the more the devil starts to tell you that you too are human, that your body needs it, that it would ease you etc. and then you did it and thus your woes began; you became a murderer (abortionist), or faced with the stress of caring for a bastard, and contracts an STDs. Protection can only hinder you from getting S...

HOW THE DEVIL TRAPS PEOPLE IN SIN If you know how the devil traps people in sin and had trapped many in sin, perhaps you might be able to overcome him. Christ revealed to us the strategy of the devil and the antidote for him Temptation comes when we become anxious of these things? What to eat: when we start bothering ourselves over what to eat when we are yet even hungry, we anticipate the hunger and become so engrossed in seeking out the solution to the problem that hasn’t come. When the desire to gratify our body begins to overwhelm us, then we are at the verge of falling into the trap of the devil. Be careful when your desire for sex starts intensifying when you are yet married and, when your desire for dainties begins to increase when you are yet hungry, you are about to fall into the pit of the devil What to drink: the ideal of enjoying great wines and the overwhelming urge to indulge in it is the devil’s strategy to entrap you forever ever. Alcohols are addictive thus...

THIS IS YOUR SEASON OF COMFORT Have you lost your job? Have you lost your marriage? Have you lost your child? Have you lost your wealth? Have you lost your honor? Have you lost someone? Have you lost your health and sound mind? What have you lost in life that makes you mourn whenever you remember? If you are a child of God, this is your season of comfort; God is going to comfort you today After Israel lost her children, God comforted her with more children that there was no room enough to contain them . The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.  Isaiah 49:20 After Job lost everything, God comforted him by doubling everything he ever lost and gave him more beautiful children And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.  Job 42:10 Christ Jesus s...

*I BROKE DOWN* January was the worse month of my life and I pray I never have a repeat of it. There were lots of pressures and disappointments and betrayals that I broke down; for weeks, I couldn’t eat, sleep or commune with God. My heart was filled with bitterness and my mouth, murmur. My joints were painful and weak, my head very heavy and I was intensely losing weight. While I will be crying and shaking, people would come and see me; they’ll call me and will be crying on the phone recounting to me their various problems and as a pastor, I’ll clean up my face and comfort them and after dropping the phone or seeing them off, I’ll start where I stopped and continue crying; I couldn’t still comfort people but not myself. I tried confession of faith, it didn’t work and whoever I tried to talk to seems not to understand the pain I was facing inside. Then one morning, I read God’s word that healed my heart and as I was doing an audio prayer with the word (Rom. 9:14; God is...

*I BROKE DOWN* January was the worse month of my life and I pray I never have a repeat of it. There were lots of pressures and disappointments and betrayals that I broke down; for weeks, I couldn’t eat, sleep or commune with God. My heart was filled with bitterness and my mouth, murmur. My joints were painful and weak, my head very heavy and I was intensely losing weight. While I will be crying and shaking, people would come and see me; they’ll call me and will be crying on the phone recounting to me their various problems and as a pastor, I’ll clean up my face and comfort them and after dropping the phone or seeing them off, I’ll start where I stopped and continue crying; I couldn’t still comfort people but not myself. I tried confession of faith, it didn’t work and whoever I tried to talk to seems not to understand the pain I was facing inside. Then one morning, I read God’s word that healed my heart and as I was doing an audio prayer with the word (Rom. 9:14; God is...

*Ye … have overcome them  1 John 4:4* *_You have overcome them God says_* The failures of yester-years The defeats and shame and disappointments *_You’ve overcome them God says_* The trials and temptations The devil has got his chance on you and failed Now nothing can stand on your path to oppose you or hinder you from God’s blessings and provisions and your purpose and calling You’ve overcome that marital crisis; that threat to your marital-union You’ve overcome those diseases that has stayed long and which med says has no cure; that HIV and cancer and every diseases on that list You’ve overcome that limitation and curse The inability to pay your bills and debts and have a better life *_You’ve overcome them God says._* I pray and decree in Jesus name that you’ve overcome them. God bless you Pastor Promise Ikpe

MMM and the Christian Zacheus was profiting in the systematic robbery of the masses by the government of his days and when he met with Christ, he had to refund in multiple folds those whom he has defrauded. The presence of Christ in one’s life should make such person flee from robbing people through any means. It recently appeared on news with pictures of several people weeping for their losses after investing in MMM; their losses were other peoples’ gain and profit. Those who joined MMM will are either the profiteers from those who would be robbed or the robbed. MMM is the system of thrift where you gain 30% of your financial investment when another person invests and whenever there is no new investor, the system definitely crashes with the last set of investors losing out entirely. Any service we engage in that at the final run results in the defrauding of another individual is robbery and a sin against God. Good investments should both provide gains for you and servi...

*ENJOYING VAINITIES TO DEATH* You know where he is heading to, yet you followed him anyway because of the dainties he is offering you along the way You know he wants to destroy your faith in God and you continue with him because he keeps telling you what you want to hear and not what you need to hear. How many have fallen though unwillingly, into the cultism and immorality and the selling of their souls to the devil because of dainties that’ll turn out to be vanities eventually? You can repent today and turn back to Jesus: Jesus saves and He’ll save you no matter how deep into sin you’ve fallen, Christ will save you. He is able to save all those who will call on Him: call on Jesus today. _And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.  Acts 2:21_ God bless you Pastor Promise Ikpe Share the word To be getting these messages on whatsapp please add +2348088062946

*THIS IS HOW I FELL FOR HIM* He had wanted sex all along and I have kept refusing and saying no, he had used several logic on me to make me sleep with him and I kept refusing him even saying ‘if I love him, I should prove it to him by sleeping with him’, all that didn’t work because I wouldn’t bring myself to disobey God’s word because of my friend. One day, something happened that broke down my defenses, and made me not able to keep to my beliefs. He took me out, bought me a phone which I desperately needed at that time, bought lots of meat and drinks and played music so loud, when all was done, I was tired and wanted to sleep but too late to return home, so I had to sleep where he had arranged, then he came to me, didn’t say anything and pulled my dress off. Deep down me I wanted to resist him but I seem to lose all strength to do that. There were tears in my eyes but things changed after then, thus he always had me whenever he wanted. That’s how I lost my innocence and de...

Jephtah made it from a slum where he had no proper education, no conducive living environment and where he was surrounded with vain men. Gideon succeeded with only 300 hundred soldiers in the battles where numbers of soldiers matter in order to get victory Rehab rooted out of the house of harlotry and become counted among the lineage of Christ. Wherever you are in life today, there are those who from worse place came forth and succeeded in life No matter how less privileged you are, there are those lesser privileged than you that made it No matter how sinful and cursed your past is, there are those who came from a more cursed and worse past than you and became great. There is no hindrance before you that’s not common to men and there is no temptation that is only unique to you. If others made it from far worse situations than you, you too can and will in Jesus name. The powers of darkness is still same, people are still making it despite the presence of curses, darknes...

Someone may think to himself that he has a special problem that’s bringing defeat and frustration in his life or that of his family that isn’t usual with the experiences of others and accepts this as the reason for his failures. He thinks he is cursed beyond others that is why deliverance and success is far-fetched for him. He considers he is under more satanic attack that’s why he is barren and unfruitful in life He reflects that it’s because he is born into the wrong community and culture that’s why he won’t succeed in life He are less opportune and privileged that’s why he won’t get anywhere in life But the truth is 1Co 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. You got no challenge that’s different from those of others in the scriptures and those who are succeeding now ...