Solutions to your issues will be answered if you go to God in prayer

▪️Why should the church be revived?? It is because of the negative things going on around us in society.

▪️Mark 13:14. What is the Abomination, standing not where it should be?

▪️Many years ago, the site where the Temple of the Lord was to be built had abominable animals like pigs sacrificed right on the altars.

▪️Our modern day church experiences lots of abominable things, which need the church to be revived. Currently the UK Methodist church has given approval for gays marriages.

▪️Can we have a situation whereby the COP will endorse gay marriages too?... say 50yrs from now? Can we imagine John Wesley's Methodist church born out of revival, now endorsing gay marriages?

▪️It was said that 254 voted for and 46 abstained when the UK key Methodist bishops met on the gay marriage decision. We need to rise up in prayer against such a development in COP.

▪️We need not be complacent cos things have changed over the years in the history of the COP.

▪️Tongues speaking and it's interpretation, as well as prophesies used to be very common in the COP but it's quite rare these days.

▪️A fiat from government passing out gay laws may happen in future, if we don't influence society through our direct involvement in political leadership.

▪️We need a cooperate prayerful commitment to reverse some of these negative trends in our times. We need to do so for future generations when we grow old later on.

▪️If we are sinking and not revived in prayer about such gay issues, we may approach it in terms of leaving it for the "rights" of such gay practices.

▪️In such situations of "human rights", the reverend ministers may also lose their rights to decide whether or not to bless such marriages.

▪️Ezekiel 22:30-31. The Lord is looking for people to stand in the gap, so He will not destroy us. It takes prayer, it takes our availability in order to avert His wrath.

▪️We need to teach our children now, so that the right future of the church can be preserved. Otherwise, they may be wrongly influenced in schools, as it happens in the UK currently. Transgender laws are in place in many European countries.

▪️We all need to be revived, to positively impact church and society.

▪️Revival requires that we get closer to God by regular prayer and reading the Word, everywhere and anytime we find ourselves, including our workplaces. Amen.

▪️Alabaster boxes in those days contained different types of perfumes.
During a party celebration, Mary approached Jesus and washed his feet with an expensive perfume using her hair.
▪️The disciple Judas thought it was very absurd to wash Jesus feet with such an expensive perfume. He believed it could be used on the poor.
▪️Jesus however rebuked saying Mary had vision of His future- all that He was going to endure and all that He had been to her; besides the poor shall always be with us.
▪️Everything Mary did was an outpouring of heart. She had been saved from her sin by Jesus.
KEY NOTES
1. MARY. That bottle (Alabaster) cost so much as 300 Denarii (approximating an annual salary) . However, she submitted herself to Jesus and honored Him with the best of her possessions. She appreciated how Jesus had turned her life around. Without Jesus, she knows she is worthless.
▪️Mary did not count the cost of the perfume cos she knew Jesus was worth far more than that. That was an act of true worship.
▪️Judas was rather rational in suggesting that the perfume be sold and proceeds given to charity.
▪️It's not always that we have to rationalize our giving. There's a place for rationalization and also a place for giving our all to Jesus. Not everything can be quantified. We need to appreciate Jesus more. It's expensive to be a Christian.
▪️God should be the object of our giving. 2 Corinthians 9.
▪️Giving is a sign of saying thank you to God. He is the source of our blessing and the One who can change our lives.
▪️We are all equal before God irrespective of our social or economic standing.
▪️Just as Mary broke a full bottle of perfume, likewise we must break open all that we have before God. We ought to open our hearts for Him to control. The nakedness of heart to give the best of our substance.
2. JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA. A "secret" disciple of Jesus, this man requested from Pilate for permission to bury Jesus in a highly specialized hewned tomb.
▪️He ensured that Jesus was buried in an expensive tomb which was actually reserved for rich people like Joseph Arimathea himself.
▪️He knew that Jesus deserved the best.
▪️Let's think about the way we give offerings to Jesus. No room for rationalization in those circumstances.
▪️When we give our best to the Lord, it serves as a memorial and also gives an opportunity for others to thank God for our offering.
▪️We should be sold out to Jesus.
Amen!

In this episode, the Preacher man admonishes us to help raise new breed of Fathers in Christ. We should teach them to grown in wisdom as they grow in stature.
 We hope you're blessed by this message, Amen.

You are responsible for who you become cos heavenly hands cannot do what you are mandated to do yourself. God will bless that effort of planning.

▪️Zechariah 4:6. Acts 1:4-5.  Since 2018, the COP has operated in the task of possessing the nations. However, this has been preceded by Christ's instruction in the Bible.

▪️It's not easy to do so, however each of us are tasked with that responsibility of positively influencing and possessing the nations.

▪️How can that be achieved? We need to enable the Holy Spirit in our lives to empower us.

▪️The Women's Movement has to prepare its membership to live holy and exemplary lives. We need to bring the Kingdom's principles and values to people.

▪️Just as was said through Zerubabbel by the Lord, we need the Holy Spirit to empower us.

▪️Zerubabbel was a civilian leader, who was worried and passionate about the fate of the people of Jerusalem with its broken down walls. He had an intercessory spirit.

▪️We need the Holy Spirit to empower us to intercede. In our days, we will be baptized with the Holy Spirit to fill and strengthen us, to enable us depopulate Hell.

▪️Without holiness, we cannot be filled by the Holy Spirit. Being filled with the Spirit comes with exciting loads of gifts to operate in.

▪️Water baptism alone is not enough to enable us go out there to possess the nations.

▪️The Holy Spirit steps in to alley all our fears and rather emboldens us to spread the Word to people.

▪️We must have a strong yearning for the Spirit, just as the early Apostles did when they met in a room and prayed for the Holy Spirit.

▪️We must not be limited by geographical or physical location in praying or yearning for the Spirit's baptism.

▪️Miracles and wonders follow when we are filled and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

▪️Let's always tell ourselves that we need the Holy Spirit and the Lord is always faithful to meet that desperate need.

▪️The Spirit will always tell us what to do, when we go out there to possess nations and bring glory to God. Amen.

▪️The Lord has more in store for us through our varied life's experiences. When we open up to Him, Hell reveal Himself more to us.

▪️Exodus 3:1-4. Moses had a desire to meet God closely. The burning bush made him curious and when he got closer, the Lord revealed Himself to him.

▪️God is always inviting us as individuals in order to turn things around. We pray the Lord opens our eyes of understanding.

▪️Luke 10:38-41. Mary got the better insight and sat at Jesus feet when He visited her and Martha.

▪️Luke 24:13-25.  There were people who walked and dined with Jesus but still couldn't appreciate or get closer to Him.

▪️We must have a right attitude, put aside all things we hold on to which are sinful.

▪️The things Jesus wants to reveal to us may come through many mediums such as dreams, through our Sunday School kids, etc.

▪️Ephesians 1:18. There are so many things in store with God. We must strive and pray for the grace and mercy to obtain all these good things in Him.

▪️We must make our spirit receptive enough in order to benefit from our closeness with God. Amen.

There are circumstances which bring us to a state of lifelessness. There was no water for the Israelites for 3 days as they passed through the desert. When the water was found, it was bitter to taste.

In bitter situations, God  opens our eyes with prayers which can show us how to change bitterness to sweetness.

The piece of wood that Moses dropped into the bitter (Marah) water to turn to sweetness, is Jesus. Jesus can do it when we cry out to Him just as Moses did in the desert.

In this sermon, we're admonished to be humble and be servants to our Master and our brothers and sisters in the Lord.

This is day one of the Singles and Variety Conference