*THE POWER OF WORDS*

*(Pastor Brian Machache)*

_Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips (Psalms 141:3)_

As children of God we should always be careful what comes out of our mouths. Our words can either build us or destroy us.

(James 3:5-10)(Proverbs 21:23)

*GOD VALUES WORDS*

1) God created everything through the word (Psalms 33:6)

2) God keeps everything though words (Hebrews 1:3)

3) God communicates through the word

4) God blesses through words

*THE IMPART OF WORDS*

1) Individuals are built through words (Proverbs 14:3)(Proverbs 13:3)(Proverbs 10:32)(Proverbs 12:13)(Proverbs 6:2)(Proverbs 15:23)

a) Reputation is built through words

b) Your words will determine whether people will trust you or not

c) Your words will determine whether people will depend on you or not

d) Words will determine whether people will respect you or fear you

e) Words determine your relationships (Proverbs 11:9)

2) Churches are built through words

a)God is honoured through words

b) New members come because of words

c) People are established in the faith through words

d) Miracles, signs and wonders happen a result of words

e) People are healed through words

f) Order in the church is maintained through words

g) Pastors and church leaders are honoured because of words

h) Destinies are changed through words

i) Churches are revived through words

j) Churches are destroyed through words

3) Homes are built through words

a) Couples stay together because of words

b) Children honour their parents because of words

c) Families stay united because of words

d) Peace is in the homes is maintained through words

e) Homes are destroyed through words

4) Nations are built through words(Proverbs 11:11)

a) Nations are destroyed through words

5) Businesses are established through words

a) You get customers through words

b) You keep customers through words

c) Your establish the name of your business through words

d) Businesses are destroyed through words

6) Schools are built through words

7) Battles are won through words

a) Victories come through words

b) Faith come through words

c) Disputes are settled through words

d) Battles are avoided through words

*WHAT WE SHOULD USE OUR WORDS FOR*

1) To preach
2) To praise and worship God
3) To pray
4) To encourage
5) To bless
6) To declare
7) To create
8) To counsel
9) To unite
10) To revive
11) To rebuke
12) To comfort
13) To correct

*WRONG USE OF WORDS*

1) Quarrelling
2) Murmuring
3) Cursing
4) Complaining
5) Criticizing
6) Lying (Proverbs 12:22)
7) Gossiping
8) Condemning
9) Judging
10) Discouraging
11) Stirring up strive
12) Vulgar language
13) Deception (Proverbs 24:28)
14) Self praise(Proverbs 27:2)
15) Justifying sin (Proverbs 30:20)

*WHAT WILL SHAPE OUR WORDS*

1) Good heart (Proverbs 16:23)(Proverbs 15:28)

2) The fear of the Lord (Proverbs 16:6)

3) Faith (Mark 11:23)

4) Knowledge and wisdom (Proverbs 15:7)(Proverbs 20:15)

*THE PROPER LIFESTYLE FOR CHRISTIANS*

1) Be quick to hear and slow to speak (James 1:19)

2) Don’t comment what you don’t know

3) Keep your voice low always (Proverbs  15:1)

5) Pray before you answer

6) Study before you answer (Proverbs 15:28)

7) Always make sure that you don't sin with your words (Psalms 39:1)

8) Learn to apologize when you are wrong or even when you are not wrong

9) Learn from the mistakes of others

10) Don’t answer everything. Jesus never answered everything

11) The words of your mouth should always agree with what is on your heart (Psalms 62:4)

*PRAY THAT YOUR WORDS WILL BE ACCEPTABLE*

_Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, my redeemer (Psalms 19:14)_

Am sorry for not posting all this while, I have been seriously busy with my school  exams.  Thanks to all my fans for taking your time to read my article. God bless you all.

A WOMAN IN HELL FIRE FOR NOT GIVING ENOUGH TO THE POOR!!!
(BY ZIPPORAH MUSHALA)

As I was about to sleep last night, I felt the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ so strong in my room and it was as if an intense fire was burning in my heart.
So I decided to pray. After that, I closed my eyes to sleep but I realized I was still seeing the walls in my room with my eyes closed!
 When I looked at my self, I saw a hand coming out of my hand and it was then that I realized, it was my soul coming out of my human body and then I found myself traveling down to hell.
In this section where the Lord took me, I saw ugly faces of demons just in the entrance. It was darker than any blackness known to man but I could see the demons. It was so dark that only the Lord Jesus Christ allowed me to see. Jude 1:13 says, "They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom the BLACKEST OF DARKNESS has been reserved forever."
Some were looking like what people like calling aliens today but they were looking very ugly, old and angry. Some were just looking like jaw bones of a donkey. They were all just heads and they were looking very very scary.
I could feel that Jesus was with me but I was not seeing Him. Only hearing His voice.
I saw something that resembled a reception desk at this section with a tough skinned demon sitting behind the desk.
It should be understood that there are many sections of hell. Luke 12:47-48 says, "To whom much is given, much is required. He who knew what to do and did not do it will be beaten with many stripes. He who did not know what to do and yet did something deserving of beating will be given few stripes."
I saw a woman looking about in her late forties or early fifties. An elderly woman. A demon had just brought her to hell and she was kneeling before it begging with tears pouring down her face like water. But the demon kept kicking her to the ground and laughing.
Then it put a huge chain around her neck and dragged her to the desk. The demon at the desk asked "What did this one do?" And the other demon answered, "She did not give enough to the poor." I was left in utter shock and speechless.
Then I thought, so someone can come here for not giving enough to the poor? But Proverbs  28:27 says, "He who gives to the poor will lack nothing but those who close their eyes to poverty will be cursed! "
The Lord Jesus Christ showed me this woman's life when she was on earth. She believed in God and practiced outward holiness of not adorning herself.
The Lord had blessed her with money but all she kept doing with it was buying more and more clothes for her wardrobe. She had clothes packed in her wardrobe which she was not wearing and she kept buying more and more.
She could not even give those packed clothes to the poor. Proverbs 21:26 says "Some people are always greedy for more, but the godly love to give!" I saw that sometimes when she passed a beggar, she would drop a coin in their hands just to make herself feel as if she was giving. To the Lord, she did not give enough.
Many of us are guilty of having things which are not using yet we are not giving them to the poor. James 4:17 says "To him who knows to do good and yet does not do it, to him it is sin" Whatever we know that the Lord Jesus Christ wants us to do must be done. Including Evangelizing to the lost.
 I saw the woman at a function before she died preparing to marry her daughter off but she just fell down dead. The Lord had decided her time was up and she died. He had warned her of not giving to the poor over and over again and also to avoid talking about other people. But she thought she still had time on earth.
To people there, they said she had died of Natural Causes.
The demon at the desk wrote her crime down in a book. I also saw countless books and some were piled up on top of each other. Then I remembered Revelations 20:12 which says, "And the dead where judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books."And I thought, surely these are the records being written down in preparation for the great judgement day. Because hell is just a prison according to 2 Peter 2:4  and after judgment day, it will be thrown into the lake of fire according to Revelations 20:14-15.
I saw that the woman had died wearing brand new clothes. They were looking squeaky new.
When the demon wrote down her crime, immediately, a huge metal plate appeared on her chest destroying her flesh. It was spluttered in her blood and was written the words "I did not give enough to the poor." It looked as if it was in another language but I understood the words written there because it was in the spirit. She was branded with her sins.
Isaiah 3:24 says, "Instead of a sweet smell, there will be a stench; instead of a sash, a rope; instead of well-dressed hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, BRANDING."
Then fat maggots appeared on her body and began eating her clothes and her flesh off! Mark 9:44 "Where their worm does not die and the fire is never quenched" That is why Matthew 6:20-21 says we should lay up our treasures in heaven where they can not be destroyed.
Then the demon dragged her for punishment to a place where I could hear all sorts of screams and sounds of flesh popping.
She was shaking with fear and then I saw her no more and I came back and the Lord Jesus Christ brought me back.
Hebrews 13:16 says "Do not neglect to do good and share what you have for such sacrifices are pleasing to God."
Many of us have things piled up but its time to give to the poor. The Lord Jesus Christ sees such things as very important.
If it is a shoe that is spoiled, we must make sure to have it repaired before giving it out. Do to others as you would have them do to you. But its not right to give indecent clothes which we no longer wear to others. Don't take them to hell in the name of giving to the poor. Only give them decent clothes. Any indecent clothes including clothes with evil drawings must be burnt. Acts 19:19.
The Lord Jesus Christ also said He wants us Christians to live in unity and love and not to treat each other partially.
The Lord said the way you receive a Rich man with 7 cars into your home is the way you should receive a poor man who lives in a grass thatched house or else you are going to hell. James 2:1-9. Make sure you are not even guilty of favoritism in your heart. The Lord said "Are you happy to have stacks of shoes piled up in your houses while someone else depends on one pair of flip flops which even has holes in them everyday?"
We should not only give the old things even buying something new for someone is fine  because 2 Corinthians 9:7 says God loves a Cheerful giver!
If God didn't love us, He would watch us die in our sins but He has warned us that we may turn away from ways that do not please him.

Pass this on for your neighbor to be warned too.

DON'T GO TO HELL!

UNWAVERING CHRISTIANS


"Unwavering" means not changing or becoming weaker in any way. "Wavering" means to be weak or unsteady.
           Unwavering means to be unshaken, steadfast and secure. Believers of this time which is end time are wavering. They are shaking, they are no longer stable or serious in the work of God. there is no longer fear of God in the church, all they want is prosperity, prayers and prophesies. Am not saying prophesy is wrong but too much of it, is wrong. No time to pray, no time for personal relationship with God, no time to study the bible. Everybody is busy going after money. Just like in the time of Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-10) people are telling lies in the church. There is pride in the church, people have become lovers of money and lovers of themselves. This is end time we Christians are not to waver but to go closer to God. We should not waver when storm comes. The one that waver receives nothing but suffering.
         Please my fellow Christians, this is not the time to waver from the things of God. We have to remain unshaken and steady till the end. This is the time to serve God sincerely not to please men but to irritate them.

WHAT DO WE DO NOT TO WAVER

1.  We must always live righteously: When you sin go to God in prayer and ask for forgiveness.
2. We must keep doubt away from us: We must keep reading and believing the word of God. (James 1:6, Romans 10:9).
3. Always pray (1thesslonians 5:17)
4. Always remember what God did in the past: He sent His only son to died for you, His faithfulness, His mercies and be thankful for that.
5. Praise Him always: The bible says in all things both in the bad and good times we should give god thanks. (1thesslonians 5:18)

ARISE AND SHINE (Isaiah 60: 1-5)


'Arise' means to begin to exist, to develop, to stand up or to fight for something. 'Shine' means to produce, to reflect light or to be bright. 'Arise and Shine' means to stand up and demonstrate.
As a youth you have to arise and take risk for God.

• Be energetic and strong in the Lord
• Serve God at your early age (Ecclesiastes 12:1). Serving God is not by sight. Examples of those that stood for God at their early age are David, Samuel, Esther and Mariam.
• Make impact in the lives of those around. Anything you are doing you have to do it wholeheartedly and put extra effort for you to excel and for your light to shine.
• Be ready and available for God to use you. Don't run away from responsibilities.

CRITERIA OF SERVING GOD

1. Surrender your life totally to Him. (Romans 12:1)
2. Live a holy life: You need to live a life of purity (2timothy 2:22)
3. Be purpose driven: (John 18:37) What is your purpose here on earth?
4. Seek God's direction
5. Stay focus and shun every form of distraction.
6. Stay humble. (Philippians 2:8)
7. Remember your creator. (Ecclesiastes 12:1)
8. Have the mind of God
9. Serve Him and seek Him
10. Accept responsibilities: Believers are scared of responsibilities. Until you accept responsibilities you become a liability. To accept responsibilities to dare the undareable. Example: David and Goliath. The key to shine is to accept responsibilities.

BENEFITS OF SHINING FOR GOD

1. It will separate you from many evil.
2. It will preserve your life
3. It will distinguish you from others

HERE IS A LIST OF THINGS U NEED 2 TEACH UR CHILDREN AT EARLY AGE

1: Warn your girl Child Never to sit on anyone's laps no matter the situation including uncles.

2: Avoid getting dressed in front of your child once he/she is 2 years old. Learn to excuse them or yourself.

3. Never allow any adult refer to your child as 'my wife' or 'my husband'

4. Whenever your child goes out to play with friends make sure you look for a way to find out what kind of play they do, because young people now sexually abuse themselves.

5. Never force your child to visit any adult he or she is not comfortable with and also be observant if your child becomes too fond of a particular adult.

6. Once a very lively child suddenly becomes withdrawn you may need to patiently ask lots of questions from your child.

7. Carefully educate your grown ups about the right values of sex . If you don't the society will teach them the wrong values.

8: It is always advisable you go through any new material like cartoons you just bought for them before they start seeing it themselves.

9. Ensure you activate parental controls on your cable networks and advice your friends especially those your child(ren) visit(s) often.

10. Teach your 3 year olds how to wash their private parts properly and warn them never to allow anyone touch those areas and that includes you (remember, charity begins from home and with you).

11: Blacklist some materials/associates you think could threaten the sanity of your child (this includes music, movies and even friends and families).

12. Let your child(ren) understand the value of standing out of the crowd.

13: Once your child complains about a particular person, don't keep quiet about it.
Take up the case and show them you can defend them.

LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX: SINCERE TALK WITH CHRISTIAN SINGLES

Years back when I was single, there were several temptations that came across my ways in fact I thought of myself as somebody who was more prone to sexual temptation than an average man. And not being sure of when I would even get married, all I had to do was to pray and watch so I would not fall into temptation, praying for the grace of God and also being watchful. I decided not to be in unnecessary casual marital relationship until God’s time. When I was living alone in 3 bedrooms apartment as a single brother, I determined not to allow ladies coming to visit me, not for any reason, not even sisters from church, keeping a good distance from opposite sex as much as possible.
Since I gave my life to Jesus early enough, I was not exposed to sexual immorality, all I knew was pressures within and temptations around everywhere. I wasn’t available for casual relationship until I was sure of God’s will and ready for marriage. But along the way things went wrong and I got myself into several wrong relationships and errors but thank God for His grace and mercy that kept me through.

You see, as a single Christian, as you are keeping yourself in the Lord, the devil, the world and even your flesh will bring pressures and temptations of sexual immorality to you as if everything in life is all about sex. In your school, after school, at workplace, in your neighborhood and even in the church today, as if you cannot survive without falling; the world is making sex looks so important that many singles think they can’t wait until marriage before they start experiencing it, but the sincere truth is that sex does not worth having before marriage, it doesn’t worth it at all.
When I was single, I had this thought that would be sex was so special that it could not be over-emphasize, because I never experienced it before but when I got married, yes, it is special but it could be overemphasize more than what it really worth. As a single, the devil and the world can bring pressure and temptations of sexual immorality on you as if that is what life is all about, and that exactly is the reason many youths and singles are falling into fornication and all sorts of sexual immoralities, but the truth is that sex is good but it doesn’t worth it before marriage, it gives bitter after-taste.
Pre-marital sex or extra-marital sex is like when a person wants to be on top of the world that he takes the stress, risk and pains to climb Mount Everest and after reaching the top, he found himself at the lowest part of the world, that is exactly how it is to fall to the pressure of sex before or outside marriage, after throwing all cautions to the air and yielding to the dirty temptation, you will find yourself empty, you will feel dirty from inside out, and all the high pressure and romantic passion will go down, you will feel more miserable than you felt romantic at the beginning, as if you empty your life for nothing.
When I was single, God kept me all through from falling into fornication, so I never experience sex than to imagine it would be a great experience in marriage, even though I had lots of pressures and temptation, I usually encourage myself that “Don’t worry, when you get married, you will have enough of it better, it is all a matter of time.” That is the truth, single brothers and sisters; it is all about a matter of time. The time will come that you will get married and you will wish your spouse doesn’t ask for sex at some times, the same sex Satan wanted to use to ruin you as a single.
No matter how long you have to wait until marriage before sex, it worth waiting, and do not give up sinning against your soul and against God.
Sex before marriage empties every good thing in one’s life and fills it with every evil thing from devil.
My beloved single brother and sister, the pressure and passion for premarital sex is not real, it’s a mirage from the pit of latrine of Satan, though it comes sometimes so strong but it’s temporal, either you yield or not, it will fade away; if you yield, you will find yourself empty, dirty and miserable but if you do not yield, you will find yourself filled with more grace and goodness of God.
And the worst of it is when singles are now in a marital relationship, when you have only little time left to get married, the pressure and temptation will still come seriously, but it does not worth it because it waste God's grace and glorious destinies.
No matter how delicious a hot soup looks, even with its entire aroma, it doesn’t worth eating when it’s so hot that you get your tongue burnt while you have the time to wait for it to get cool; you will not enjoy the taste with a burnt tongue. So also is a sex before marriage, it burns with passion of lust and leaves its victims hunted, wounded and miserable.
Do not become a victim of premarital sex and all forms of sexual immoralities such as kissing, romancing and other dirty activities before marriage.

COUNSEL FOR CHRISTIAN SINGLES

• Do not give you what you need most for what you need the moment.

• Distant yourself from every occasion which can lead to temptation.

• In marital relationship, run from every appearance of sin, not sin itself. Do not wait until you are close to the sin before you will run, you may not have the strength to resist by then.

• If you are in a marital relationship in which you have fallen into premarital sex, do not cover up or continue to manage the sin, but you must open up, confess to your leads and partners in the Lord or seek for counsel. Sometimes, premarital sex can destroy God’s plan for a glorious relationship, so beware.

• The pressure and romantic passion is temporal and even a mirage, it is not real, what is real is genuine love, which only God can give, so wait until God give you the right person.

• Marriage cannot solve the problem of lust, it is only encounter with Jesus Christ can solve that.

• If you lack self-control to overcome premarital sex, you will also lack self-control to overcome extra-marital sex, so you better settle that with God once and for all.

• A man or woman who demands for premarital sex in relationship will also demand for extra-marital sex with another person outside your marriage.

• Do not be another Esau of this generation to sell a glorious destiny for few minutes’ pleasure.

• “Lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. 17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.” Hebrews 12:16, 17.

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