Let Us Pray Fellowship

*LET US PRAY* *CONGRATULATIONS DEAR AND THANK GOD.* *I will freely sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, O Lord, for it is good. For He has delivered me out of all trouble; And my eye has seen its desire upon my enemies*.  *Ps 54:6-7*. I join you and your family to thank God for the blessings of September and for making it through the month of September. I thank God for you even as i congratulate you. We thank God for delivering us from all the troubles of September and pray that we shall not see them or such in our lives again in the name of Jesus. As we are about to cross to the month of October, we cross in good health and may the Angels of the Lord lead us into the new month for signs, wonders and miracles. The ninth month is the month of delivery and so i pray for you that this month will not end until all your blessings has been delivered to you in the name of Jesus. Whatever ugly situations that you passed through in this September or that have been part of your life. As th...

*FAITH NUGGET* *SPIRITUAL CHECK UP PT15* *Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them*.  *Acts 16:6-10*. We have been seeing the reason/reasons why God had to mandate Paul and Barnabas to attend to the Macedonian church first and today we will continue to look at more. Apart from their humility and faith in God something must have prompted them to seek God with such seriousness and i believe that it is the state in which they found themselves. I mean the situation of th...

*FAITH NUGGET* *SPIRITUAL CHECK UP PT14* *Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them*.  *Acts 16:6-10*. We have said that one of the reasons that could have made God to be specially interested in Macedonia was their humility as a humble heart always attract the attention of God. Today we will be looking at their faith in God which they expressed in the place of prayer and probably fasting which made God to personally choose Paul and Barnabas for them by making them to ...

*FAITH NUGGET* *SPIRITUAL CHECK UP PT14* *Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them*.  *Acts 16:6-10*. We have said that one of the reasons that could have made God to be specially interested in Macedonia was their humility as a humble heart always attract the attention of God. Today we will be looking at their faith in God which they expressed in the place of prayer and probably fasting which made God to personally choose Paul and Barnabas for them by making them to ...

*FAITH NUGGET* *SPIRITUAL CHECK UP PT13* *Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia.  After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them.  So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them*.  *Acts 16:6-10*. Having seen why Paul and Barnabas were restrained from entering Asia and seeing a vision to come over to Macedonia to help them today we want to look at the reason for the urgent call to come over to Macedonia to help them and why the Holy Spirit regarded it as a matter of emergency. The bible told us that he saw a man of Macedonia who stood and pleaded with him, say...

*FAITH NUGGET* *SPIRITUAL CHECK UP PT12* *Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them*.  *Acts 16:6-10*. We have been able by the grace of God to establish the fact that it was not out of wickedness or favouritsm that made the Holy Spirit to retrain Paul and Barnabas from entering Asia but necessity, urgency in other places and many more and today we wish to take a look at more of the reasons. Another thing that we must not fail to mention is the fact that your will can...

*PRAYER FOR THE WEEK*. *CELEBRATION TIME*. *After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem*. .  *Jn 5:1*. I pray for you and with you that from today by the power that raised Jesus from the dead that we stop every power that has been stopping celebrations in your life and family in Jesus name. By the authority in the name of Jesus we decree and declare that any power that says no to your celebration be cut off from the land of the living in the name of Jesus. Any power that is angry that you are celebrating or that you are about to celebrate and want to do anything contrary to your celebration will never live to see that come to pass in the name of Jesus. Any power or powers that wants to turn your celebrations to sorrow will never succeed, may the God of heaven clothe them with shame and disappointments and may all their plan work against them in the name of Jesus. May the elements of creation that sponsors and produce celebrations work for you and may everyt...

*FAITH NUGGET* *SPIRITUAL CHECK UP PT11* *Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them*.  *Acts 16:6-10*. We have been looking at why the apostles Paul and Barnabas were stopped from entering Asia by the Holy Spirit to preach there. Apart from the ones that we have seen the Holy Spirit is still helping us to see more. The bible made us to understand that they were asked to go to mecedonia by the Holy Spirit which implies that the mecedonians had urgent need of the gospel...

*FAITH NUGGET* *SPIRITUAL CHECK UP PT10* *Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them*.  *Acts 16:6-10*. yesterday we took a ride on why the apostles Paul and Barnabas was restrained from entering certain place as they journey with message of the gospel and we said that one of them could be a test of their obedience to the God of the work so that they don't work for God without God as many are doing these days. Another thing that we want to look at today is the moti...

FAITH NUGGET* *SPIRITUAL CHECK UP PT9* *Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them*.  *Acts 16:6-10*. We have been seeing how St Paul had been going about checking on people that he had contact with by the reason of the gospel of Christ which is our hope of glory. We saw how they were restrained from entering Asia and we said that today that we are going to be take a look at it. The bible said that it was the Holy Spirit that restrained them. The question now is why? D...

*FAITH NUGGET* *SPIRITUAL CHECK UP PT8* *Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them*. *Acts 16:6-10*. Isn't it interesting that Paul a workaholics had to travel up and down to do good? He and Silas his colleague went throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, where, it should seem, the gospel was already planted, but whether by Paul's hand or no is not mentioned but what was worthy of mention was that he went about checking up on them. Although he preached ...

*FAITH NUGGET* *SPIRITUAL CHECK UP PT7* *And as they went through the cities, they delivered to them the decrees to keep, which were determined by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily*.  *Acts 16:4-5*. Yesterday i thought that we have concluded the topic "spiritual check up" due to the fact that in our reflections on spiritual check up we treated so many reasons why we need to make spiritual check up and why we need spiritual check up. Today St Luke himself is giving us the reasons why St Paul and St Barnabas made that trip. 1. Is to deliver the decrees that they need to keep. What is a decree. A decree is a predetermined purpose of God. And he added that this decrees were from men not God. Which means that there are people bestowed with the responsibility of telling the mind of God. This is the reason why we are denominating ourselves after God has nominated us to be members of his(one) own fami...

*FAITH NUGGET* *SPIRITUAL CHECK UP PT6* *Then after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us now go back and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they are doing*." .  *Acts 15:36*. We have been looking at why Paul and Barnabas had to return to Antioch to check up on the brethren there and by the help of God we have been able to see quite a few and today we are concluding on that before moving forward. To God alone be all the glory. Although there were many others also there, labouring at the same time like Judas and Silas. The multitude of workmen in Christ's vineyard does not give us a writ of ease or make us relax in relation to seeing to it that what is worth doing is worth doing well. Even where there are many others labouring in the word and doctrine a routine check can afford us the opportunity of recruiting more hand to the work of ministry. I believe that it was this check up that afforded Paul the opportunity t...

*LET US PRAY*. *CELEBRATION TIME*. *After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. . Jn 5:1*. I pray with you and for you even as I prophecy into your life that no matter what you are going through right now that after this thing that you are going through that you must celebrate. OhYou didn't hear me I call forth your celebrations now by the power in the name of Jesus. I don't care to know their names or nature or their source all that I know is the biggest God that can do it and so I prophecy as I have been commanded that you must celebrate in the name of Jesus. I decree and end to whatever you are passing through right now and i call forth the angels of change to change your story for good in the name of Jesus. That sickness is going now, that yoke of marital delay is broken, that setback is over, that injury is healed now and whatever that has not been working in your life have received strength to start working now in the name of Jesus. Whatever,...

*FAITH NUGGET* *SPIRITUAL CHECK UP PT5* *Then after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us now go back and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they are doing*." .  *Acts 15:36*. Having seen the subject matter from the point of medical profession on the need for a check up and having seen that it is a norm to always do check up let us now try to see it from the point of another profession this time not from the medical profession but in academics though it is not called check up but revision. No matter how good a student is he or she must go through revision. The reason for the revision is to see how you have mastered what you have been thought so Paul and Barnabas going back was to see how far they have mastered what they were thought. The major reason for the revision is to prepare one for any kind of  test(temptations) and Examination.(tougher test) Examination is a test to show a person's progress in knowledge, or...

*FAITH NUGGET* *SPIRITUAL CHECK UP PT4* *Then after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us now go back and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they are doing*." .  *Acts 15:36*. Having seen the subject matter from the point of medical profession on the need for a check up and having seen that it is a norm to always do check up let us now try to see it from the point of another profession this time not from the medical profession but in academics though it is not called check up but revision. No matter how good a student is he or she must go through revision. The reason for the revision is to see how you have mastered what you have been thought so Paul and Barnabas going back was to see how far they have mastered what they were thought. The major reason for the revision is to prepare one for any kind of test(temptations) and Examination.(tougher test) Examination is a test to show a person's progress in knowledge, or...

*FAITH NUGGET* *SPIRITUAL CHECK UP PT4* *Then after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us now go back and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they are doing*." .  *Acts 15:36*. It is said that prevention is better than cure as such you see the medical professionals advising their clients to always come for medical check ups at intervals to see to it that any life threatening disease will be dealt with before it deals with the patients. In spiritual matters too it is necessary that a routine check up is done to avoid the story that may not be suitable to the ear hence you see many write ups here and there trying to keep believers in check with this faith nugget in the list of them. Although believers don't read them due to our dying reading culture, too long mentality, lack of time, lack of interest, holier than thou mentality, nothing new to hear mentality, procrastination, laziness and in some cases having many of ...

*FAITH NUGGET* *SPIRITUAL CHECK UP PT3* *Then after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us now go back and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they are doing*." .  *Acts 15:36*. Yesterday we we saw the various amongst many others ways by which believers can become sinners, remember that we said that sinners are the ones in the church why those outside the church are called pagans. We also saw how whenever we become sinner, grow in it and become comfortable in it until we cease to be a christian and then begin to mock other Christians and begin to tell them about when and how we use to be a christian. Bro James was telling us yesterday that whenever we bring a sinner back from his/her sinfulness that multitude of his/her sins will be forgiven and i believe that ours too we be forgiven too in order words bro James is saying that God only hates the sin and mot the sinner. Christianity is a journey of rising and falling into...

*FAITH NUGGET* *SPIRITUAL CHECK UP PT2* *Then after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us now go back and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they are doing*." .  *Acts 15:36*. Yesterday we started looking at the reason why Paul and Barnabas have to return to Antioch the place of their former assignment and we said that it was to check on them to see how they are faring and so today i pulled over at the door post of bro James and he has this to tell us. *Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins. James 5:19-20*. Sinners are those in the church while those that does not acknowledge God as God are called pagans. So you can now see the need for a check up.   There are variety of people to check up on. 1. Those wandering from the truth. What is the truth? The k...

*FAITH NUGGET* *SPIRITUAL CHECK UP* *Then after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us now go back and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they are doing*." .  *Acts 15:36*. One thing that the military learnt from the church is the virtue of not giving up on anybody and in battle. They believe that you cannot give up on anyone as all are very important in life even the lunatics. Paul and Barnabas did not forget that act, they remembered that some may have gotten weak in faith, some must have forgotten some doctrines and many others may have one area of doubt or another hence the need to revisit them to straighten every crooked areas of their life and faith. It is quite unfortunate that in our day that we don't care about the wellness of our christian brothers and sisters. We don't care about the fallen and those that are about to fall, infact we pray for them to fall so that it will be obvious that we are better ...

*FAITH NUGGET* *JOB WELL DONE PT3* *However, it seemed good to Silas to remain there*.  *Acts* *15:34*. Having done much in the church, Judas thought it wise to return to Jerusalem but Silas would not return with him rather he choose to remain there even after Judas had gone back to Jerusalem. Can you imagine that Silas has fallen in love not just with work of God but also with the people of God. He decided that not all of them should go back to Jerusalem since there are enough hands in Jerusalem. Although the reason for his staying back was not given but it won't be far fetched if we decide to dig deep into why he choose to remain behind. For me I believe that his love for God and the brethren prompted his action. Secondly I believe that he is a man that believes in continuity. Because the more he stay with them the more rooted in God they will become. I still believe that it is not far from understanding the people and their needs. Since he had been with them he must have known h...

*LET US PRAY* *UNDENIABLE MIRACLE* *Saying, "What shall we do to these men? For, indeed, that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.  Acts 4:16*. I pray for you and with you that in this new week that God will do a miracle of financial breakthrough and explosion marital breakthrough,  increase on all sides, promotion in your office and many more  in your life in the name of Jesus. Any blessings that you have miscarried before now by the power of grace you will recover all of them in this week in the name of Jesus. May your miracle be so evident that people that will see or hear of it will have no option or choice than to join you to thank God in the name of Jesus. I pray that everything will fall in place for you and that God will use everyone, everything and anything to birth a miracle in your life in this week and may this week not end until you have testified in the name of Jesus May those that are saying no...

*FAITH NUGGET* *JOB WELL DONE PT2*   *And after they had stayed there for a time, they were sent back with greetings from the brethren to the apostles*.  *Acts 15:33*. Yesterday we looked at why they stayed back and today we are going to take a look at how they were sent forth. Do you know that it is your work that gives you your worth? These men were so impactful to the point that messages were sent to those that sent them thanking them for sending them. This showed me that their stay added meaning to their life and not just meaning but direction, clarification, better understanding and love of God and neighbour to them. They were happy for the job well done in their midst by these gentlemen. Apart from the work done in their midst it also tell of their openness to accept the word of God for what it really is, not minding how it may affect them and ready to make changes where and when necessary unlike you and i of today that does selective hearing and erroneous interpretation of what ...

*FAITH NUGGET* *JOB WELL DONE*   *And after they had stayed there for a time, they were sent back with greetings from the brethren to the apostles*.  *Acts 15:33*. We have seen the office of Judas and Silas, the work that they did and how they did the work. The bible did not stop there as it went further to tell us how long they stay there in doing the work and it said "And after they had stayed there for a time," They stayed a while because they had a lot to do. They stayed a while because they wanted their work to be thorough. They stayed a while because they want them to be strengthened. They stayed back because they wanted them to be rooted in their faith. They stayed a while because they want them to be convinced of the reality of God and to understand His workings. They stayed back because they were making impact. They stayed back to water what Paul and Barnabas had planted. They stayed back because the people were enjoying and benefiting from their stay. They stayed ba...

*FAITH NUGGET* *EXHORTED AND STRENGTHENED PT24* *Now Judas and Silas, themselves being prophets also, exhorted and strengthened the brethren with many words*.   *Acts 15:32*. Yesterday we started taking a look at the life of the men, Judas and Silas. We saw that they were just ordinary men like you and i but by the grace of God coupled with their cooperation with that grace which was born out of their zeal to serve God with what they had through the church and their fellow men did extra ordinary things. Judas and Silas were entrusted by the apostles to deliver some things relating to circumcision in the church but they did not end there rather they stayed back to compliment the work of Paul and Barnabas and probably it was because of this work that made Paul to make Silas his partner in his mission. Even those that had the constant preaching of Paul and Barnabas were glad of the help of Judas and Silas, the diversity of the gifts of ministers is of use to the church. They tried to co...

*FAITH NUGGET* *EXHORTED AND STRENGTHENED PT23* *Now Judas and Silas, themselves being prophets also, exhorted and strengthened the brethren with many words*.   *Acts 15:32*. Having seen why Judas and Silas ministry was mentioned, the work that they did and how they did the work today we will be looking at the men "Judas and Silas" For the records this is not the Judas that ate so much carrots so much so that it was said of him that "Judas is carrot"😄😄😄😄(laugh small abeg) This Judas was a christian teacher, surnamed Barsabas. He was sent from Jerusalem to Antioch along with Paul and Barnabas with the decision of the council (Acts 15:22, 27, 32). He was a "prophet" and a "chief man among the brethren." Silas which means "wood" was a prominent member of the church at Jerusalem; also called Silvanus. He and Judas, surnamed Barsabas, were chosen by the church there to accompany Paul and Barnabas on their return to Antioch from the coun...