Let Us Pray Fellowship

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT18* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*.  *Is 7:14*. Still looking at the sign that God gave us and how we can maximize this wonderful opportunity, having that at the back of our mind we want to take a look at the obstacles that can makes us to ignore or not utilize or follow this sign and one major one that we are going to be looking at today is called pride with his friend arrogance. A sign requires humility to understand and follow since most times the sign does not in anyway look like what it is pointing to but with humility and total submission to the will of God who is showing the sign the end is guaranteed. Unfortunately arrogance and pride has made many to ignore the sign because they don't want to leave where they are(state of sin). they don't want to embrace change. A change for the better, a change to serve God in spi...

*LET US PRAY* *EVERY IRON GATES MUST OPEN* *When they were past the first and the second guard posts, they came to the iron gate that leads to the city, which opened to them of its own accord; and they went out and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him*.  *Acts 12:10*. All thanks to Almighty God for the privilege of seeing another beautiful week which he has made for us to be happy and glad. May His name be praised both now and forever. Beloved, as you have come to the last Monday of the year 2024, i pray for you and with you that every gate that leads to the city of 2025 will automatically be opened to you on its own accord by the power in the name of Jesus  As you have entered into this week i pray for you and with you that every iron gate that will contest your lifting and testimony in this season be shattered on it's own accord and hurriedly by the power in the name of Jesus. May this week be for you and members of your family the week of divine pack...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT17* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*.  *Is 7:14*. We have said that this sign that God gave and is still giving us is to point to us the reason for the season which is Christ the saviour and we saw that he was given as a son and we said that a son is one that is a heir to whatsoever or all that his father has and that he became a son so that we through Him will also become the sons of God and heirs to His kingdom. Another thing that makes a son is the fact that a son is a citizen of his or her community I know that you are going to ask me about daughters, well daughters are good but their are the citizens of anywhere they are married to but a son no matter where you marry from you must return to your father's house. For instance, anytime that it is my turn to become the head of my community they must send for me and nobody i mea...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT17* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*.  *Is 7:14*. We have seen that a sign may not look like the product and that a sign only show you the way to the product but most times does not show you the process and we said that many people have missed the product because they are not able to comprehend and able to face the challenges of the process not that they are not interested in the product but too proud to follow the process. Let take a look at the life of Mary to buttress what we are saying. The angel came to her and told her that she is to be the mother of the savour and that this saviour is of the lineage of David and the angel did not tell her that the pregnancy will end in a manger. How can the son of David end up in a manger? What happened to state house hospitals? What of the best hospitals in town? Solomon was of the same linea...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT16* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*.  *Is 7:14*. Remember that we said that the sign that God gave us and is still giving us is a pointer to our saviour hence the bible told us that the Virgin shall conceive and bear a son not a daughter or a child but a son and you and i know that the gift of a son is the gift of generations which means that the the gift is generational. We know that a son is a heir to whatever the father has and if a heir it follows that whomever the son give birth to is also entitled to whatever the son has inherited from the father. If the gift is a son it follows that we who are adopted as sons also are entitled to some inheritance and that inheritance is called salvation. We cannot inherit anything until we choose to study the sign, believe in the sign and follow the sign accordingly so as to benefit from the ...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT15* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*.  *Is 7:14*. We are still looking at what a sign is all about and why God choose to give us a sign and we said that the reason why God asked Ahaz for a sign was probably so that Ahaz(man) will never claim ignorant of what God was about to do or is doing and secondly that probably God wants the sign to be of mans standard and not God's standard. Having said all that let us remind ourselves about what we said about sign that a sign is a pointer to something outside the sign, now God Himself giving us a sign what could be the reason or reasons for such? That a virgin will conceive and bear a son which humanly speaking is impossible is a sign that God is giving you and i, that though our salvation may seem impossible because of the enormity of our disobedience to God but that there is nothing that...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT14* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*.  *Is 7:14*. In our last episode we tried to see what a sign is and we said that a sign is something that points to something, a sign is not the subject but points to the thing in question. A sign gives one direction as to what is needed and necessary or what one is seeking after. We have seen from our discussions so far that the love that God has for man is unquantifiable and unmerited, since the fall of man God has been in the business of looking for a way to bring man back to the originality of his personality and even when man seems to be comfortable his fallen state God is going all out to save him. Now Ahaz was asked to request for a sign probably God wanted to do it man's way or according to man's standard but Ahaz refused to do so but his refusal was too small to extinguish the lov...

*LET US PRAY* *(PRAYER FOR THE WEEK)*. *FRUSTRATE THEIR PLANS LORD*. *He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot carry out their plans*.  *Job 5:11*. All thanks to Almighty God for the privilege of seeing another beautiful week which he has made for us to be happy and glad. May His name be praised both now and forever. I pray for you and with you dear child of God that in this week and beyond that anyone around you or with you pretending to be a friend or a helper but happens to be the reason behind your tears may the God of heaven expose and disgrace them openly and frustrate all their plan permanently in the name of Jesus. Anyone going about looking for any means to harm or destroy you or your business or carrier will end up in all his or her efforts in futility in Jesus name. Anyone that will go about recruiting more hand or machineries to fight you or anyone going about poisoning people's mind to hate you just to fight your blessings the God of heaven w...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT13* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*.  *Is 7:14*. We said that God gave you and i a gift and we went ahead to see that this gift was so precious and this gift can only be out of love and not merit because there is nothing that man can do to merit the gift and everyone of us need to work for it. The gift is already given but the acceptance has to be done by you and i. From our opening scripture the word of God said that it is God himself that choosed to give us a sigm. He asked Ahaz to choose how he wanted the sign but Ahaz refused but the refusal of Ahaz did not stop God from giving us the sign because "no purpose of His can be twarthed"  For us to work towards this gift a sign was given to us. A sign is a pointer to something which means that your ability to recognize the sign, read the sign and know what it means is very ...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT13* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*.  *Is 7:14*. We have seen so much about why Adam and Eve lost the garden and we said that we were looking at them to enable us not to make the same mistake that Adam and Eve made but come to think of it don't you think that if it were to be you and i that God would have destroyed the earth instead of driving us out? Because the way you and i sin with impunity it means that Adam and Eve were learning when it comes to sinning. Now having seen the reasons why Adam and Eve fell let us now take a look at how we can recover from the effects of what Adam and Eve did and that brings you and i to this topical issue "Christ is the reason for the season" Please permit me to inform you that we are not only going to recover from the effects of what Adam and Eve did but we are assured of a better ...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT12* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*. *Is 7:14*. Like we said earlier that we are not looking at Eden to make us jealous of what Adam and Eve made us to loose but to make us see the state which God intended for man and for some time now we have been seeing how man lost that state and amongst the many reasons that we saw that made Adam to loose the garden, we will continue to see more today and like we said so that we too will not repeat the same mistake. Apart from disobedience, arrogance, pride, lack of the love of God amongst so many already seen today we want to look at probably the last one which in is lack of believe in God. Adam and Eve did not believe in God. All these vices wouldn't have come up if Adam and Eve had love God because we know that love conquers all things. The moment they dropped from the state of God which...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT11* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*.  *Is 7:14*. Man was created in the image and likeness of God and God is love which means that the nature of man is to love but man fell from that standard to choose another nature that is contrary to the nature of God by disobedience which has resulted to lovelessness between man and God and between man to man. It may interest you to know that love is not a felling like we saw the other day but something practical, love is meant to be practiced and expressed. The bible told us that for the love that God has for man he expressed it by giving the best thing that he has(his only son) Love is not in the speaking but in the proving like God did by giving His only begotten son and he calls us to proof our love for him by giving us the expo on how to go about it. It is only God that cam give you and ass...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT10* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*.  *Is 7:14*. Like we said, Adam and Eve does not love God because if they did they would have known that trusting God totally is the best thing that can happen to anybody they would have known that God is too good to be doubted, they would have loved God with all their hearts, all their soul and all their might. To love God is more than any worship or sacrifice. *So he answered and said, " 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,' and 'your neighbor as yourself*'" *Lk 10:27*. We are talking about the kind of love that does not entertain fear, if Adam and Eve had loved God they wouldn't have entertained the fear that God is too powerful and can use His power against them hence they choose...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT9* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*.  *Is 7:14*. We said that information is power and that the kind of information that one has will determine the kind of power that the individual has hence some have power to do good and others the power to do evil and we are looking at knowing God the way we should so as to have the right kind of power that will lead us to doing good. Any kind of knowledge or information that we have about God that does not lead us to love God as we should cannot birth the kind of intimacy that is expected of us as God's children. The kind of love that can make one to love God for who he really is not about what we want from Him. The kind of love that will make us to celebrate and appreciate God for who He really is and represents in our lives and not to use Him. Use Him in the sense that we only come to Him w...

*LET US PRAY* *(PRAYER FOR THE WEEK)*. *NO WEAPON FASHIONED AGAINST YOU SHALL PROSPER*. *No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment, You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me," Says the Lord*.  *Is 54:17*. What a mighty God we serve, the God that is more than whatever we choose to call Him, wonder working God, Jehovah overdo the God that does not count our merit but depends on His infinite mercy to continually bless us, to Him alone be all the glory forever and ever. I pray with you dearly beloved and for you that anyone going from place to place to do you or any member of your family harm, will embark on a journey of "no return" henceforth in the name of Jesus.   Anyone, powers or kingdoms commanding the sun or the moon to work against you or any member of your family. Anyone that has vowed not to rest until he or she brings unrest into your life may they ...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT8* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*. *Is 7:14*. We have said so much about knowledge and you and i know that knowledge is power so the knowledge that you have or the kind of knowledge that you have will determine your impact in life. If the knowledge that you have about God does not lead you to love God it means that your knowledge is a wrong one. The knowledge that we have about someone determines the kind of relationship we establish with the person, Adam and Eve saw God as a cheat, someone not to be trusted hence when the devil came tempting them they quickly responded by showing their distrust in God. We are talking about the kind of knowledge that births intimacy, whenever we want to talk about a deep relationship between a man and a woman we say that the "man knew his wife" this does not in anyway mean that they were ...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT7* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*. *Is 7:14*. We have been seeing that been close to God or obeying or observing religious rites is not a sign that you know God and we went ahead to see that it is not about fellings, it is not about what we see and not about what people told us but by deliberate and committed desire to know him. *That I may know him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death*. *Phil 3:10*. St Paul speaking to the Philippian church stated his desire to know Jesus and the God that raised him from the dead and to have fellowship(constant determination to know him more and more). To be in league with them and be part of all that concerns Him. In other words he does not want his knowledge of the person of God to end in clapping or shivering or in shouting but to...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT6* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*. *Is 7:14*. We have been looking at why Adam and Eve lost the garden and we said that one of the many reasons why they lost Eden was arrogance, pride and ignorance of who God is and today i want us to continue to look at what it means not to know God. *You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble*! *James 2:19*. St James is telling you and i that it is not enough to believe in God alone as the only proof that one knows God or to believe that there is only one God because according to St James even the devil believe it too. The kind of knowledge that we are talking about here is not about having or depending on good opinions of who God is to you because anybody can have any kind of good opinion of anything hence St James says that even the devil does that too ...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT5* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*. *Is 7:14*. We are still laying the foundation for "Christ is the reason for the season" reason being that the new Eden which Emmanuel came to show us the way is what we will be talking about very soon but until then we will continue to take a look at the reasons why the first one was lost so that we will avoid anything that will make us repeat that same mistake again. We are still saying that one of the principal reason why Adam and Eve lost that garden is that they don't know God and we saw how Jesus accused the religious leaders of His time that they don't know God so sometimes being close to God does not mean that you know Him. Let us see what Daniel said about Those that do know their God. *Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the peo...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT4* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*. *Is 7:14*. I know that you will be surprised to see that we are still talking about Eden when we are supposed to be talking about Emmanuel which is the reason for the season, you are right sir, but we won't be talking about the opportunity available to us to return to the new Eden without talking about how the first one was lost so that we won't loose this opportunity again accept one doesn't want to be there. We have seen that the first Eden was lost due to pride, arrogance and disobedience and we went ahead to see also that the reason why it was so was because they don't know God and we said that this kind of knowledge is not about knowing that God is up there or what people told you about God but having intimate relationship and knowledge of who God is. Speaking to the religious...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT3* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*. *Is 7:14*. We said that what led to the fall of Adam and Eve apart from rebellion and disobedience was lack of the knowledge of who God is, though they were living with God, having relationship with him and doing things in common with Him but they never come to a deeper knowledge of who God is and what He represents in their lives. When we know God the way we should we won't be expecting him to proof anything to us, then we won't be needing things to be good to obey God or give him conditios for us to know that He is God because with or without you he is still God, God does not need anything to be God and does not need to proof to anyone that he is God. The years we spend in church or the time we became born again is immaterial when it comes to knowing God. Adam and Eve were with him and ...

*LET US PRAY* *(PRAYER FOR THE WEEK)*. *YOU WILL FINISH WELL*. "*The hands of Zerubbabel Have laid the foundation of this temple; His hands shall also finish it. Then you will know That the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you*.  *Zech 4:9.* What a great God we serve, He has done it again by giving us another wonderful opportunity(week) to enjoy and so we say that may His name be praised both now and forever in Jesus name Amen. Beloved, you started this year on a very good note and you will end it better, as you are seeing the end of other months so shall you see the end of this year in good health of mind and body in the name of Jesus. All your labour in this year shall yeild plenty. Every project that you will embarked on since the beginning of this year will begin to produce now, you shall finish in testimony. No more stagnation and setbacks. The hand of God will take you to places of honour in Jesus name. Helpers of destiny shall locate you for your next level of glory and fulfil...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PT2* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*. *Is 7:14*. Yesterday we said that we don't need to continue to grieve about the loss of Eden or continue to blame Adam and Eve because God has graciously given us a new Eden which is better than the former but you and i this time, because it is not going to come on a platter of gold must worked for with fear and trembling. Do you know that the major reason why Adam and Eve lost the garden is that they don't know God? Yes sir i will say it again and again that they don't know God. The kind of knowledge that am talking about is not about knowing that He created you and that he is seated in heaven. No sir. Am talking about knowing God personally and intimately. Am talking about the kind of knowledge that brings about the kind of intimacy that can make one do anything for the sake of God. ...

*FAITH NUGGET* *CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON* *Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel*. *Is 7:14*. We have talked so much about Eden and we saw that Eden was the ideal place for man's abode according to God's own standard and plan but man lost that due to pride and disobedience and we said that having lost the first abode that God made another one for man and that the new Eden which is far better than the first must be worked for by man and St Paul added "with fear and trembling". Like we said earlier there is no need to grief for the lost of Eden because the word of God told us that "the glory of the later will be more than that of the former" which is not the fault of God if one chooses to miss it. It is the same God that prepared Eden that prepared this one too and he it is that told us also that the glory of the new is better than that of the old, infact t...

*FAITH NUGGET* *PROVISION FOR THE VISION Pt4* *Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads*.  *Gen 2:10*. We have continued to see how glorious the state of man was before the fall and the wonderful plans that God had for man. We are not looking at them to curse Adam and Eve for loosing such a wonderful place that God made for man rather we are saying that if the first one could be that glorious that the glory of the one that awaits us cannot be imagined. *The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former,' says the Lord of hosts. 'And in this place I will give peace,' says the Lord of hosts*." *Hag 2:9*. If the glory of Eden was that glorious then it follows that the glory of the new Eden(heaven) cannot be captured by human mind and if that be the case, loosing the future Eden will not just be the worst undoing of anybody to himself or herself but something that can only be imagined than experien...

*FAITH NUGGET* *PROVISION FOR THE VISION Pt3* *Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads*.  *Gen 2:10*. The dignity and state with which man was created was so overwhelming and cannot be understood by man as man was created to be in the image of God such that the heavens were left open for man so that as man beholds the face of God and observe what God does he too will do likewise. *Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner*. *Jn 5:19*. Man was originally created to see God as a role model, to copy His likeness(lifestyle) and live in that manner since man was created to be like God. Everything about man was to bring the kingdom of God to the earth by doing the will of God only. *Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven*. *Math 6:10*. Originally the wo...

*FAITH NUGGET* *PROVISION FOR THE VISION Pt2* *Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads*.  *Gen 2:10*. We have been trying to see by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit how much God loves you and i and went ahead to demonstrate this love by making sure that man does not just live but live like and be like him in all things. We saw how God made a river to flow into the garden just to make sure that man gets the best of the tree for food so that man will not need to struggle to survive but live in joy and gladness in love for God and for God. Now let us consult Jesus to see what he had to say about the care and love of God for you and i. *Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith*?. *Math 6:30*. Can you see what anxiety and deceit caused man on earth? Man was anxious to know why God asked him not to eat of the tree o...

*FAITH NUGGET* *PROVISION FOR THE VISION* *Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads*.  *Gen 2:10*. Before the garden was created, God made a provision for water to water the garden, the bible started by saying "now" the river was not thought of after the garden was created but was in existence to serve the garden as soon as the garden comes into existence. What does it tell you? Our God is a master planner, He does not wait till the end but plans even the end before the beginning, His provision is always ahead of His vision. He makes sure everything works out accordingly. The big question that we must all attempt is "if God can make a Pre plan to water the garden just to make sure that the garden does not lack water what of you that is a human being? For everything that God created He puts a machinery to take care of that thing adequately before creating it. At a time The river that started as a single stream o...

*LET US PRAY* *FROM TODAY THINGS WILL NEVER REMAIN THE AGAIN IN YOUR LIFE*  This month started with the Decem. I pray for you and with you that things will never remain the same with you. You will move forward, prosper and recover all the blessings that you lost from January till now.  You will do exploit and you will end well, You saw the beginning of this month you will also see the end, this month will not swallow you and you will not end in shame but in testimony. Happy new month, happy Sunday  It's well with you. Peace be with you. *MY INTEREST* is to *PRAY* for you so that you will not be a *PREY* to the devil. *Evang Morka Lucky*