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*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT68* (*CONCLUSION 15*) *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. I want to believe that today we have come to the end of "GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER" having looked at every word as inspired by the Holy Spirit but I still stand to say that i don't have the final say so if i am inspired by God tomorrow to continue trust me i will as long as it pleases the Lord to inspire me in that direction. We looked at Eden not as a place but delight and pleasure, by human definition it is called Eden but by God's definition it was delight and pleasure so Eden is much more than we know it to be. Eden is the best name we could ascribe to it but it is much more than that just that words failed us to give it the appropriate name. We saw that Eden is the idea place for man a...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT68* (*CONCLUSION 14*) *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. You cannot live in delight and pleasure and not have joy infact the reason i believe why it is called a delight and pleasure is because there was aboundance of joy there in other words God made a place of delight and pleasure for man because he wants man to be joyful all the days of his life so that as He is so shall we be. In essence Eden was an open place so that it cam always enjoy the presence of God, it is a place where the presence of manifest fully because in his presence joy flows like a river. *You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore*. *Ps 16:11*. As long as we choose to follow the path of God, joy and gladness will be th...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT68* (*CONCLUSION 14*) *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. I am convinced beyond reasonable doubt that When God said "let us make man in our own image and in our likeness" that even his dwelling place was part of that plan, that is man was originally created not just to look like God in His image and likeness but to live in the same kind of environment like God hence God made a delight and pleasure for him as a home so as to live like God(holy lives). Can you see the reason or one of the reasons why God prepared delight and pleasure for man as an abode so that as he is so we shall man also be but too much freedom and "I don't care" and "it doesn't matter" attitude has made us to loose all that and it is still making many of u...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT68* (*CONCLUSION 12*) *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. We have seen that going by the way the garden was created and the blessings therein we came to the conclusion that only God can do that and reasoning why is it that only God can do such a thing we said that the Love of God is so overflowing that it needs a place or human to be poured into and so God decided to pour it on man. Ain't we lucky? Amen!!? How did we come to the conclusion that the love that God has for man is so big? St John the apostle of love speaking in his gospel told us how much God loves us in that He willing and voluntarily choose to sacrifice His only begotten son irrespective of the fact that it is the soul that sins that is supposed to die but He choose to make His own son the sac...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT68* (*CONCLUSION 11*) *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. With the way, manner and beauty with which the garden was created one would be tempted to think or believe that God created the garden so beautiful just to compel man to serve him by all means but that is not the case sir as God does not lack anything or in need of anything. He is God all by Himself. The beauty and ecstasy of the garden was born out of the love of God. God been full of love or God been love personified is looking for a place to offload part of His love and then choose to lavish it on man by so doing He made a provision that will reflect his personality which is love on man. Has that love ended you may ask and i will quickly answer you "capital no" the love of God can never end or...

*LET US PRAY* (*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 yo...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT68* (*CONCLUSION 10*) *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. What greater love can we expect from our God who is so interested in making sure that his children has everything that makes Him God. He was not joking when he said that He wants to make man in His own image and after His own likeness. Am talking of love not merited and provision not paid for and cannot be paid for, all that is what God has prepared for man. The garden is so glorious that it could attract the devil's jealousy, he wished it was his, he wished he could enjoy a little bit of that glory but yet it was meant for man, he probably thought that it could be his because of his long years of service but it was actually meant for man. Can you imagine a house built and furnished by God Himself for ...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT68* (*CONCLUSION 9*) *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. It seems like the glory of Eden cannot be exhausted in a hurry but with God on our side we will keep enjoying it in as much as it continues to please the Lord to reveal all these to mere children. Having seen the benevolence of God we will continue to explore Eden as it pleases the Lord. Eden speaks of all things desirable by man all that man will ever want in life. Eden is a product of a finished work of a God that is interested in giving His children His best not man's best. All that man needed was in Eden not wants because God does not supply wants but needs. Eden was a perfect dwelling place for man according to God's own judgement and standard. Like we have seen in Eden man has everything that ...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT68* (*CONCLUSION 8*) *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. God does not declare who He is rather He allows His works to declare about His greatness as such Eden was to tell man how wonderful God is so God has to prepare Eden such that when man sees it he will have no option than to give glory to the beautiful beautifier of what man is seeing and enjoying at no cost. Amen!!! The glory of the garden was such that gave man no option or left man no choice than to worship God not out of compulsion but love since the love God lavished on man in creating the garden can only be reciprocated by man by worshipping the creator that was never created and cannot be created  The beauty of the garden reflects the good heart and intentions of God towards man, it shows how much Go...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT68* (*CONCLUSION 7*) *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. I thought that we will just take a look at the garden and then move forward but as usual it has also please the Lord to expose us to more revelation about the garden and am sure that it has been a blessing to you and it is to me and so we return all the glory to Him who is, who was and will forever be both now and forever. Like i always do and will continue to do whatever and however it pleases the Lord to lead us in this reflection i will follow without hesitation because on my own i can do nothing but i can do all things through him who strengthens me. Today as we have been doing for a while now we will continue to explore Eden. Eden was a garden planted by God Himself and one begins to wonder why God cho...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT68* (*CONCLUSION 6*) *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. We have seen from the point of view of king David how Eden looks like and we will continue to explore Eden today using the vision of king David in that same Psalm 91 and i believe God that it will continue be a blessing to us in Jesus name  One beautiful thing about shadow that i want us to take a look at today is that when you are under a shadow your own shadow is consumed in the shadows which you are under. When you are under the shadow of God you don't notice your shadow but that if God in whose shadow your own shadow is hidden. When you are under his shadow His shadow hides your shadow so that even if you walk in the valley of the shadow of death you will not fear any evil because they will not see ...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT68* (*CONCLUSION 5*) *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. We have been trying to see the beauty of Eden and from all perspectives we have seen that Eden like we said before is just an extension of heaven. No houses, no cars, no clothes and yet they didn't lack anything. The glory of God around and within them was so much that they didn't even need to pray before God will show up and have interaction with them. I believe that king David saw a dimension of Eden in relation to heaven when he wrote Psalm 91 and that will form the bases of our reflection today. Amen!!!! *He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust*....

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT68* (*CONCLUSION 4*) *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. We are still summarising this series and we are still looking at the garden and why man was put in the garden by God and why there was no accommodation and yet the man was not bothered. In the garden the man and his wife were naked but they were not aware, the glory of the environment which carried the presence of God was covering them such that they had no need of clothes, the glory of God is much more than clothes. We need to work for the glory of God to cover us. Eden is a place of contentment in the garden there was no need of want because God supplied all their needs(not wants) according to his riches in glory. *Now godliness with contentment is great gain*. 1Tim 6:6*. Eden is a place of total depende...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT68* (*CONCLUSION 3*) *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. Today in continuation of our summary of what we have done in this series i want us to take a look at the place that God Himself made for man, it is called "Eden" the word Eden as we have seen before simply means delight and pleasure. Can you imagine God making a place of pleasure and delight for man? What a mighty God we serve. Why did God of all that He is and represents not give man a mansion, no Lamborghini, not even Lexus300 but just garden no duplex no self contain, not even a flat but why? And if God is a king and we are His children why did He not prepare a palace for man? Just garden. "God self" not that He cannot do it. The garden that God made for man was not furnished and ador...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT68* (*CONCLUSION 2*) *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. By way of conclusion we have been seeing how we fared in this series and yesterday we have been able to see quite a number of them and today we will continue from there. Having talked about the tree that is with, within and for us we said that this tree did not just replace the other tree in the midst of the garden but that it was, is and will forever remain a better tree than the other tree. The tree that is with us made us His branches which means that we are part of Him and not outside him like as it was with the old tree. This new tree supplies all the necessary ingredients(grace) for our growth and He expects us to grow on daily bases. *But the path of the just is like the shining sun, That shines ever...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT68* (CONCLUSION) *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. We have come to the end of this series but before we draw the curtain let us first of all thank the God that made it possible, the inspirer and the man behind the scenes. To Him alone be all the glory both now and forever..   Let us take a look at how we fared. Amen!!! We started by saying that the Lord is a great provider and we buttressed that fact with all the evidences at our disposal thus. He made the ground a resource center to produce all that man needed in life. He it was that prepared a garden for man and not man preparing the garden by himself. He made sure that every kind of tree for the good of man was cultivated in the garden for man's use. He made sure that the tree for food was pleasant to th...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT67* *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. We have been looking at the last tree in the garden which is the tree of knowledge of good and evil and we have said that knowledge is necessary in life because when you are not informed you will be deformed hence the devil tries as much as possible to make sure that man lacks this knowledge in order for them to be deformed so as to loose their eternal inheritance. There are things that are worth knowing so as to give attention to them and learn from them all that is necessary for us to have a better life and there are some too that we need to know so as to avoid them because they will not be a blessing to our lives. Knowledge will help us to put our actions to check our actions and the consequences of such actions and what...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT66* *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. We have seen that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil consist of three things and we have started looking at the first one which is knowledge and you will agree with me that knowledge is power because when you are not knowledgeable the devil will prey on your ignorance to make you loose your eternal inheritance like he did to Adam and Eve. This was captured by St Paul in his second letter to the Corinthians when he said that there is a god of this age and the duty or the function of that god is to blind(darken) the mind(seat of knowledge) so that the believer can see his or her glorious inheritance and then pursue it with utmost seriousness. While God was busy distributing knowledge so that man can live in full consc...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT66* *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. We have seen by the leading of the Holy Spirit that there are three trees in the garden, the first was for food and pleasant to the eye, the second was the tree of life and lastly the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and we said that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was not that needed hence it was placed almost beyond man's reach. There are three elements in the tree of life. Namely knowledge, good and lastly evil and we will look at all of them in the economy of divine Providence because our God is a great provider. Amen!!! Knowledge speaks of knowing what you are supposed to know in order for you to do what you are supposed to do and avoid all that you are supposed to avoid. Knowledge well applied is ...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT65* *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. I believe with few points that we have seen so far that you will agree with me that our God is indeed a great provider who has planned everything before hand. No wonder He is said to know the end from the beginning. What a mighty God we serve. Having some things about that garden let us proceed to take a look at the last tree in the garden which the bible calls "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*. This is that last tree of the many trees in the garden. We have the tree bearing food, we have the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil was to text man's obedience and dependence on God. The tree was to make man have some level of restraint and su...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT64* *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. I hope this message is making sense to you and becoming more and more a blessing to you and that this messages are meeting you well, apart from sharing the word of God with you on this platform it is my earnest desire to use this medium to always check on you as my brother and as my friend and i trust God that you are good and doing well. Today by the special grace of God we will be answering some questions on why God choose to put man in the garden as much as we have said that the garden is a small piece of land i want to let you know that what God calls a garden can be as big as the earth a hundred fold. One of the reasons why God put man in the garden is to make sure that man is not out of His reach. Having made man in h...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT62* *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. We have been looking at the garden and how hard God worked to make sure that everything is in place for man's comfort and how He made sure that He has constant fellowship with the man that He made in his own image and after His likeness. Another good thing that i will quickly like to point out here is that the gardena are so sizeable that the gardener can see the whole garden at a glance. Do you know what that means? It means that God does not want man to be out of His sight and reach so God is not just interested in providing the best for man but also in making sure that he has him covered. The love that this good God has for man can make him to do anything for the sake of man if not for anything but to protect His nam...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT62* *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. The other day we looked at the garden and we said that the garden is a place of interaction between the gardener and the garden and that most times that the garden is a place of relaxation for the gardener and so the gardener takes pleasure in visiting the garden but most times it is what is in the garden that attracts the gardener to the garden hence God was coming at the cool of the evening to have interaction with the occupants of the garden. Apart from what we have seen about the garden the garden is also a place of provisions. If God has a garden it means that God is a cultivator of crops and these crops are not for God's consumption but the occupants of the garden(man) The garden is a place of pleasure. Apart from...

*LET US PRAY* *(PRAYER FOR THE WEEK)*. *GOD OF THE ELEVENTH HOUR*. *And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, 'Why have you been standing here idle all day?' They said to him, 'Because no one hired us.' He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you will receive*.' *Math 20:6-7*. To Him who is able to do exceedingly above all that we can ever think of or imagined, the Jehovah overdo be all the glory, honour, praise and thanksgiving for all that He has done for us, all that He is doing and many more that He will continue to do by the power in the name of Jesus. Beloved i pray for you and with you that the God of the eleventh hour will visit you in this season for good. As He come may He water all your efforts of January till now so that in any area that you have not been enjoying aboundance of harvest that the God of the eleventh hour will make you to reap more than enough by the power i...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT61* *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. Having seen how to give our lives a meaning we want to take a look at now the garden and what happens in the garden. Remember that the tree that we have talked about are in the garden though there is another tree in the garden that we have not talked about but meanwhile let us take a look at the garden we will come back later to look at the last tree in the garden. Gardens are not farm, there are not done for commercial purposes most garden are for the pleasure of the gardener and most gardens are done as a means of relaxation for the gardener so gardens are most times small portions in the compound of the gardener. Now the garden that we are looking at is not in another person's compound but in the compound of God. Rem...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT60* *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. We said that life is meant to be giving a meaning and live like one have to account for everything that one does or did while living. I said while living because we have established that this life does not end here but hereafter and that how we live here will determine how our hereafter will be. Every religion believes that there is a hereafter but it is only Christians that has been able to tell us exactly how the hereafter will look like, pagans believe in reincarnation, some believe in another world where there will be plenty of virgins to marry, I may not know all the believes but i will not fail to tell you that the truth is the there are only two places to spend our hereafter and it is either in heaven or hell dependi...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT59* *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. Having established for now that life does not end but transformed from mortality to immortality and having known that in the case of immortality that it will either be spent in heaven or hell and that there is no way you can miss both of them. If you miss heaven you will can never miss hell and if you miss hell you can never miss heaven so whichever one we find ourselves is a product of our lifestyle(fruit). Amen!!! In essence what truly is life? For me as a person, life is not the body we walk about with, life is not about sleeping and waking, life is not about houses and cars but life is that tangible investment of God in every man/woman not for consumption but for contributions, for the service of God and the good of hum...

*FAITH NUGGET* *GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT58* *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. A friend of mine once told me that he will not like to go to heaven and i was curious enough to ask him why and he said that from what he heard about heaven that heaven will be too boring so he will be pleased to go to hell where it will be bubbling with all kinds of things raging from sex, beer, music and the likes. This my friends position tells more of the fruits that are not of the vine(Jesus) and the bible calls it the fruit of the flesh or work of the flesh and these are the bad things which should be avoided because the end is hell though they are the sweet things people like to engage themselves in but the fruit will lead to where I e may not wish even his enemy. *Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: a...

*FAITH NUGGET* * GOD IS A GREAT PROVIDER PT57* *And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil*.  *Gen 2:9*. We have seen that four(4) major things awaits man since life does not end but transformed from one level to another and we said that this transformation will either end one in heaven or hell depending on one's despirate and determined efforts and decisions. The man as we have said before does not die but since it separated from God he has to make a conscious effort whether to or not to return to God since he has separated from God whom he came from i mean from where he came from, either to God that breathed into man or otherwise but since he has separated from God "to whom will he return?" This is where the two(2) last things come in and whichever one we choose is entirely our decision. It is either man ret...