The Prince of Peace

By Pastor 'Deji Adewale

John 14:27 – “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid”

Peace. Picture peace for a moment. What comes to mind is rest, quietness, harmony, safety, good health… all things good.

The other side (antonym) of peace is war. Trouble, lack of rest, disturbance, everything unpleasant, pressure, tension, insecurities, unrest, or the common Biblical word - storm.

 Anytime we hear the word storm; ugly pictures go through our minds. Storms have resulted in different levels of nervous and emotional strain. Sometimes, we look around and do not know where to cast anchor.

However, at the centre or in the midst of every storm lies calmness and peace. In Mark 4:35-41, the Bible tells us that at one time when the disciples were in the boat with Jesus, there was a storm and Jesus was sleeping when they woke Him up, He spoke to the storm.

All He said was Peace Be Still. And suddenly everything became calm. So that people came to him and say “what manner of man is this, that the wind and the sea obeyed Him?”

Same way, the Prince of Peace is in the boat of our lives. He will speak peace to every financial, marital, physical, spiritual, emotional, professional, career storms of our lives, in Jesus Name. You will have good success this 2017.

Remain blessed.
Shalom.

From Our Pastor's Desk - July 2017 Our Month of Great Peace

By Pastor 'Deji Adewale

Welcome to this Our New Month of Great Peace, in Jesus name.

Psalms 119:165—”Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them”

Peace means rest, safety, good health, quietness, prosperity.

Jesus Christ personifies peace and He promised it to all of us who are His.In this life, situations could disturb our peace, sometimes for a little while, or for a relatively long time, either at individual, family or corporate level.

Mark 5:35-41 told us about Jesus in the boat with the disciples when a storm arose. This means, even as Christians, storms of life could still arise.

But since we have Jesus in our boat, no matter the storm, we will never sink. Great is the peace that Jesus gives.

He is the Prince of Peace. Jesus only had to say a word to the storm – “PEACE”, and the storm stilled. He didn’t have to repeat Himself. Jesus says in John 14:27 – “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” This month, the Prince of peace will speak peace to all our storms, physical, spiritual, financial etc.

He will divert every future storm away from us. There shall be no more storms, in Jesus Name. Amen.

...But by His Spirit

By: Pastor 'Deji Adewale

Zechariah 4:6 - “This is the word of the LORD unto Ze-rubba-bel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.”

Two cases.  One in Judges 19 & 20. The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin and demanded the culprits of some dastardly act of gang-rape & murder to be handed over to them for appropriate judgment, so as to put away evil from Israel.

But rather, the children of Benjamin defiantly mobilized for war against the children of Israel.

Three times the children of Israel sought counsel from God about going to war against the tribe of Benjamin and three times God gave them a go-ahead.

However, they got different results. And another in 1st King 20:1-21. Ben-hadad, the king of Syria, gathered his entire host together against the extremely idolatrous king Ahab and his evil wife, Jezebel.

In spite of Ahab’s dastardly sins, not only did God send a message of hope to the idolatrous King Ahab, He actually delivered on His promise by giving King Ahab an unexpected resounding victory over that great enemy host.

We win, succeed, excel, breakthrough or prosper, surely, not by our own might or power, but by the working of God’s precious Spirit inside of us.

So next time you encounter a problem, face challenges or sense a battle around you, remember Zechariah 4:6. Halleluyah.

You will have good success this 2017.

Remain blessed.

Shalom.

Mighty Men of Great Wealth

By: Bro Richard Somade.

God  reveals His  over-riding desire for man to prosper in 3 John 1:2 where He said “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health even as thou soul prospereth”.

Isn’t it then curious why there are poor Christians?  Deuteronomy 8:18 says “But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God; for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth”.

The word “get” is a verb; an action word - a doing word. Therefore, whereas the Lord commits to enabling us with power to prosper, enjoy good health and have all good things abound unto us, yet He wants us to take the action of getting it.

Prosperity is readily available in God but ONLY for the taking/getting. This is not a passive action of folding arms and waiting for prosperity to happen. The act of getting wealth does not, however, import hard-work alone.

Sheer wit and grit can never make anyone rich. Rather, God purposes that we take the conscious action of following His conjunctive prosperity principles of Obedience,

Work and Giving, to access His illimitable well of prosperity. Isaiah 48:17 says, I am the Lord thy God who teacheth thee to profit.

There are principles for becoming wealthy and the Lord is willing to teach us. It is my prayer that God illuminate our minds with His word and grant us the will to follow, that we may enjoy

His covenant of prosperity, in Jesus Name.

You will have good success this 2017.

Remain blessed. Shalom.

Getting Wealth - No More Limitation

By Pastor 'Deji Adewale

Let’s ask ourselves - is it God’s will to be rich & wealthy? Several places in the Bible has the answer.

Isaac in Genesis 26:12-14 – “and Isaac sowed in that land…And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him”

Solomon – 1st Kings 10:23 – “So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom”….to mention but a few.

God definitely wants us to prosper & be wealthy. But we limit ourselves with our mindset. One’s mindset is important. It is key to success or failure.

The WordWeb defines mindset as mental attitude, your mentality; your habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations. It is this mindset that determines what you see, how you see it.

It determines how you see life, the approach you give to it and above all, it sets a limit to what you can achieve. Limitation means boundary, things you don’t have access to; basically, as far as something can go.

We need to work on our mindset. We need to nullify our faulty paradigms and re-tune our mindset from negativity to positivity.

Reprogram our mind towards possibilities and undeniable desire of God that we should prosper & be in health.

You will have good success this 2017.

Remain blessed. Shalom.

Lest we Forget...

By Pastor 'Deji Adewale

 Deut. 8:18 – “But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day”

Ponder this…what if, God forbid, you woke up tomorrow & you were unable to move your hands and legs. You couldn’t go to that job, school or business?

What if, you eventually lost that job or the business collapsed due to your inability to attend to them?  Then, you’d remember God, your heavenly Father, to fast & pray to.

You’d now start praying for health, strength & power…to go to your job/business to make wealth. But while you had the power & health, did you remember to thank your God; obey, wor-ship and honor Him with your wealth & sub-stance?

Did you pay your tithe, in obedience to His command? Just 10% to His storehouse and you keep 90% for yourself.

Or you’d rather He took His power from you, so you can still pay your 0% tithe but now keep 0% for yourself?

God constantly had to re-mind His people not to overlook His goodness to them and the same applies to us.

The ultimate source of everything is God, even the power & strength to go out & get wealth. “…In Him we live, we move and have our being…” from Him come all other things. If you forget your source, you will also be forgotten.

A river that forgets its source will dry up. We will not be forgotten nor dry up, in Jesus Name.

You will have good success this 2017.

Remain blessed. Shalom.

Welcome to the Month of June - From Our Pastor's Desk

June 2017 Our Month of Power To Get Wealth

By Pastor 'Deji Adewale

Welcome to this Our New Month of Power To Get Wealth, in Jesus name. Deut. 8:18 – “But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day”

Our God is an all-powerful God, omnipotent, the Almighty. God’s power is in His nature. All power and might have always been His and will continue to be His for all eternity. Psalms 62:11 says “God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God”

And the Bible now tells us it is He that has given us the power to get wealth. He is our Source; of the power, strength, health, wisdom, grace, ability, skills, energy, aptitude and provisions to get wealth..

Without all these, it’s impossible to get wealth (whether through our jobs, businesses, ef-forts or exploits). But He gave them to us because of His covenant, so we may be abundant in wealth, riches and to prosper in body, soul & spirit.

This month, as we honor, release & worship our Creator, our Source, with our wealth & finances, He will imbue us more with needed power to be more wealthy, healthy, prosperous, flourishing & blessed, in Jesus Name.

Amen..