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GOD'S WORD IS LIKE THE SEED

2 Timothy 3:16 Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, [and] for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God's will in thought, purpose, and action),

This is true whether the scripture is from the pages of the Bible or the ones that passed through you to the earth in spoken or written form.

 I saw in a vision, something like a seed but like a living tiny insect - a thing that is shaking and is self-activated, alive and not really alive. I heard:

 

"Every seed, if it has really become a seed, is always alive but can look very dry and unattractive. All it's doing is waiting for the right environment or conditions. Every rhema (word) you have spoken to your wife, the children or to others, is there. It's not dead; it's in need of the correct environment for the seed.

 

Why I ask you to behave in a peculiar way or ask you to live will in a particular way is because that will cause my word to begin to work just like rain or moiture, sunlight and the soil in the right proportions will activate the seed fully into life and into growing and into becoming a tree, I depend on your life, I depend on your heart, I depend on your willingness to be who I expect you to be,  I depend on your love, I depend on your doing what I ask you to do per second for the word of God, the seed, to begin to grow. 

Remember that the word of God grew in the days of the early Church.

Acts 12:24

But the word of God grew and multiplied.

Acts 19:20

So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.

It meant people, very many people, began to create the right environment for the word to grow. Even today the word of God can grow immensely. Keep writing, keep living the life, My word that passed or are passing through you and My word, as written in scriptures, will come alive. It will surprise you. What is keeping them dormant is because rains have not really fallen - rains of self-sacrifice, rains of denying selves, of taking up the cross, rains of obedience.

My son, my word in your generation is waiting for rain, waiting for sunshine and waiting for the soil. Nothing grows until the conditions are met. No seed really die. Like I told you, My word will return to me to report. What is the need for them to get activated and again get back into dormancy. No need for that. Write My word.

Unlike the seed on earth, My word does not die, simply because it will not manifest until the conditions are right, and are right for a long time. Give my word, as the seed, correct environment and correct conditions. Ask the agric people. My word is like the seed. The seed can be dumb or dormant for thousands of years.

I'm depending on you, depending on your life and depending on your testimony.  I'm depending on your fruit, I'm depending on you to bring My word back to life. My word is like the seed. It never dies. leave a lot of my word on Earth before you return to Me. Place My word conspicuously, set my word on goodly plates, make My word available on the internet. 

Do that and focus on the best ways to do this during the coming Spiritual Birthday Celebrations. I told you get the fliers out. Begin to pray and work towards it.

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THE JOURNEY WILL END -  Part 3

(4th May 2021 WISDOM FOR TODAY - events in the fifth month by Alex Oguh, +2348065792749)

        

Num 33:38-39

38 Then Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of the Lord, and died there in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month. 39 Aaron was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor. NKJV

    

Ezra 7:9-10

On the first day of the first month he began his journey from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him NKJV

There are many events recorded as having taken place in the fifth month and we will talk about them by the grace of God, but we are speaking about what was penned first for us to read about the month. Today, let us look at the journey that Ezra and thousands of people made from the first day of the first month till the first day of the fifth month. This journey took four full months.

The journey covered about 1, 448 kilometres or 900 miles. If you travel that long in Nigeria, you will be out of the country. The distance from Lagos to Sokoto is about 591 miles or 951 kilometres by road. The journey made by Ezra and his group was more. Lagos to Maiduguri 1228 kilometres or 763 miles. The people of God covered about 900 miles (1,448 kilometres).

They were trekking. Most of them were carrying heavy loads all through the journey. Some of them were on the watch out all through the journey. Yes, they had fasted for God to protect them from the enemies on the way, but they needed guards 

Who were the enemies? Robbers have always been on the way. Sinners have never stopped existing. Though the King had released them to go, there might have been groups who didn't want them to go out of the country. After all, how many leaders release their citizens to go free? Remember how difficult it was to get the King of Egypt to let God's people go.

Ezra knew about these dangers. So he told the people that all should fast and seek God's protection on the journey.

Lessons We Can Learn from Their Journey

1. The heart of Kings are in the hand of the Lord. He can turn it as water can be poured in different directions at will.

Proverbs 21:1 The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord,

Like the rivers of water;

He turns it wherever He wishes.

It was good news for.slaves to be free. It was a Revival. This freedom came by the act.of.God. it's only God who can go to the Palace to tell the King to.let the people go. It looked like God promised the King that his descendants would rule if he did God's will and that God will be angry with him if he failed to obey God. We can see these in the Kings' statements.

Ezra 1:2-3 (KJV)  Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.Ezra 7:23 (KJV)  Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?

That is the first lesson to learn. It proves that with God nothing shall be impossible (Lk 1:37). Remember that Daniel had prayed that was the promised time for them to come out of captivity (Dan. 9). See the way God answered that prayer and develop more faith in God.

2. God's word can not fail to be fulfilled. Jeremiah and the other prophets had prophesied that the captivity would end after 70 years and that the people of God will return with great riches. This happened in Ezra's time. See.Je. 29.

3. It pays to be prepared. Ezra was a prepared vessel. So God and the King used him. There were thousands of people of Israel that could be used. None was used except this prepared vessel.

Ezra 7:6 this Ezra came up from Babylon; and he was a skilled scribe in the Law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given. The king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him.

Another revival has come and Gone will use prepared vessels. Prepare yourself. God is not a respecter of persons (Acts 10:34).

4. Fasting should be kingdom oriented. Never fast for what to eat. We are told not to worry about what to eat. Birds of the air are eating and we are much more valuable to God than they. Neither should you fast for what to drink or wear. Look at the lillies of the field. They do not show or reap. Yet they are more colourfully dressed than Solomon. Fasting for these provided things is dangerous to you. That is one reason why some die in fasting.

Also remember that even sinners use fasting. It was in fasting that Naboith was killed. Many Jews vowed and went into fasting with determination to kill Paul (Acts 23:21). God rebuked His people for fasting for carnal things.

Isaiah 58:1 Fasting that Pleases God

“Cry aloud, spare not;

Lift up your voice like a trumpet;

Tell My people their transgression,

And the house of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 58:3 ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and You have not seen?

Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?’

“In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,

And exploit all your laborers.

Isaiah 58:4 Indeed you fast for strife and debate,

And to strike with the fist of wickedness.

You will not fast as you do this day,

To make your voice heard on high.

Isaiah 58:6 “Is this not the fast that I have chosen:

To loose the bonds of wickedness,

To undo the heavy burdens,

To let the oppressed go free,

And that you break every yoke?

Isaiah 58:7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,

And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out;

When you see the naked, that you cover him,

And not hide yourself from your own flesh?

5. Ezra was a man.of faith. He trusted God to be enough to protect him. So he and the people with him fasted for three days. They didn't doubt after that, but they started the journey. True to His character, God kept them save on the roads through thick and thin for four months.

6. Hardwork

Many of these people carried load on their heads or on their shoulders for four months. They would sleep in the night, walk throughout the day. The weather must have changed in those four months. They kept walking in rain and in sunshine. They trekked in heat and in cold. Have you really laboured like that for God before?

7. We Learnt About Faithfulness. The vessels they carried were counted before they left Persia (Ezra 7:25-30). They were counted again when they arrived in Jerusalem four months latter (Ezra 8:25-33). Every item was there, even after having travelled for 1, 448 kilometres.

I salute their courage to have started and ended the long journey. I salute their faithfulness. No item dropped as they trekked or even road on donkeys.

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PLANNING – Part 3

(5th May 2021 WISDOM FOR TODAY - events in the fifth month by Alex Oguh, +2348065792749)

1 Chronicles 27:8 The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

Let us continue our discussion on planning. I thank God that it is now possible to study and know the original bible words (Hebrew or Greek are the main languages) used to write us. There are many books that can help you and we must keep thanking God for all the labours of our Christian brothers and sisters all through Church History. The internet has made things so simple. Anyone that cannot study any part of the bible and understand is either too lazy or has refused to choose being at His feet like Mary. 

    

Luke 10:41-42

41 And Jesus* answered and said to her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.  42 But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her." NKJV

It was a choice Mary made. Martha too could have made that choice. She chose to entertain Jesus. She chose welfare. She preferred prosperity preaching.  She supposed that:

    1 Tim 6:5

…that godliness is a means of gain. NKJV

This is how somebody with understanding of the original language would hear our verse today. Our verse in English is:

1 Chronicles 27:8 The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

1 Chronicles 27:8 The fifth captain for the fifth month was Desolation (or destruction) the man from the line of Helpers; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

Shamhuth means either destruction or desolation. Izra is a name that means the same as Ezra and Ezra means Help or Helper. Ezra restored the correct worship at the end of the 0-year captivity. It can be confusing at first. Is this a message of consolation? Yes! When destruction or desolation is sent from your helper, the messenger will attack your enemies and protect you. This is the same as the vision in Zechariah. Some craftsmen were seen in a vision and a question was asked, “Who are these?.

    

Zech 1:18-21

18 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were four horns. 19 And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these?"

So he answered me, "These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem." 

20 Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen. 21 And I said, "What are these coming to do?"

So he said, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could lift up his head; but the craftsmen* are coming to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it." NKJV

The horns are enemies, but the craftsmen are friends. In the spirit world, you must always wait for God to give the meaning of things. It is why you must not allow anyone to confuse you with any book on dream interpretation that encourages you to interpret your own dreams by yourself. 

I think of the situation in Nigeria. The horns are here. They are the Boko Haram, the Herdsmen, etc. They have taken over our forests. What are we to do? It is the fifth month. Our verse today gives us opportunity to pray in one accord.  We can pray that God will give us a Shamhuth (Destruction; Desolation) to deliver us from our enemies. Let us ask that God should have mercy on us in this matter.  

Over two years ago, the Lord told me to begin mobilizing Lokoja to pray to escape the calamities from these enemies of Christianity in Nigeria. I discussed the matter with three persons. None of them showed interest.  However the threat are more and more as time goes on. 

Today, I have just seen another person making a call for prayers as a away to save Nigeria.. My heart longs to join this since the burden never left me on the matter since I first heard the Lord speak to me about it.  See this call on social media this morning:

PRAY NOW OR HAVE YOUR BLOOD SHED LATER

I was working on some documents in my office this morning, the 6th day of May, 2021. Exactly at 9:25am, the Lord Jesus Christ entered my office. His countenance was saturated with sorrow like one who is bereaved of His loved ones. The moment I saw Him, I became afraid. Then He said to me, "Son, I am in deep pains. The reason is that what God have been warning my people about for a long time is almost taking place. For a very long time - more than two years now, God have been warning Christians in Nigeria to pray seriously against the islamization of Nigeria but they did not take it very serious except very few. They relaxed and were fighting themselves. They don't realized that they were besieged by their enemies, even in their churches, their enemies have spies who report regularly to them with information about what the Christians are doing. 

Now, the Islams are ready to take over Nigeria. They are set for actions while my people are relaxing and concentrating on their businesses. They love their monies more than their lives. Those who were killed, do they still do their businesses? 

Christians in Nigeria should know that their enemies have marked them for death. While their enemies are busy equipping themselves, Christians are busy talking about their businesses and investments. They monitor their monies in the banks but they don't even keep watch over their environments at nights. They believed that God is watching over them daily which is correct but God cannot pray to Himself. It is the responsibilities of the Christians to watch and use their findings during the watch hours to pray to God for defence and other things.

If effectual and consistent prayers are not made over what is happening in Nigeria currently, before the year 2021 ends, Nigeria will become a global center of news headlines because what will happen in Nigeria will shake and as well affect the whole countries in the world. 

Son, I know that some Christians are still praying, but the reason I came to you now is because the next stage of attacks on the communities and states in Nigeria cannot be controlled by the security agencies. Churches are going to be burnt down and clergies will be killed. More security agencies will be killed for defending lives and property. There will be an unspeakable and unexplainable confusions everywhere, I Jesus Christ, said, everywhere and not in some places. Banks and other offices will be shut down including major market centers in the country. Fuel stations will be burnt including other properties. All these are targeted to the actualization of the Islamization and disruption of national peace in the country.  And if such happens, Christianity will be converted to Islam - what that means is that Christians will be forced to become Muslims. It has already started gradually but the next is that there is going to be massive killing in the Christian communities and a lot of people who will become Muslims so that they will not be killed. 

My people should rise up and cry to God in prayer and fasting for 120 days. The prayer should be from 6am to 3pm daily. This is because God wants to glorify Himself in Nigeria. No person should say that it does not concern him or his church. This is because when the time of the enemies comes, it will concern every person both young and old, rich and poor, educated and illiterate - everybody.

Then He continued, "My people should start this prayer from 1st June to 28th September 2021. 

The prayers points should focus on God's intervention on Nigeria and God's vengeance on the enemies of Christians and haters of national peace in the country. They can do it individually or in groups. Churches can set out their time to gather together for the prayers.  Those who can go beyond the general time of fasting and prayer should go ahead. This prayer includes children like in the days of Prophet Jonah and the people of Nineveh. Children should be given fasting and prayer according to their age and health status.

Adults above 60 years should fasting according to their strength and age and this includes people who are having health challenges.

And after the prayer, the result will glorify God. 

But if my people fail to prayer, 1st October 2021 will become an unforgettable day in the history of Nigeria because unconsolable tears will flow in states of the country like it has never happened since the independent of the country. I, Jesus Christ, sent this warning from God this morning on this day May 6th, 2021. My hands are free from the blood of Christians in Nigeria. This is same way God warned the churches in Turkey but they took it for granted. When I was send by God and I gave them the warning before they were destroyed, I washed my hands from their blood as I gave them the message for them to know how serious it was. Yet, they relaxed and their enemies conquered them. The same is what I am doing hear. I WASH MY HANDS OFF THE BLOOD OF CHRISTIANS. If they like they should take the instruction serious or ignore it. I Jesus Christ have done what God who is my father said that I should do," Says Jesus Christ.

This message is from God's servant, 

Apostle Ubani Kingsley C.

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Why am I putting this here? It is because the bibles ask us to plan or prepare. We can prepare the horse for the day of battle. We agree that victory is of the Lord. I don’t know the person God passed this message through. I believe we don’t lose anything of value if we heed this warning. We accept that Shamhuth (Destruction) take control and deliver us this month.

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RECOGNIZE THE VOICE OF GOD - Part 6

(27TH AUGUST 2021 - WISDOM FOR TODAY - events in the eighth month by Alex Oguh, +2348065792749)

Zec 1:1 NET In the eighth month of Darius’ second year, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah, son of Berechiah son of Iddo, as follows:

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We are still talking about recognizing the voice of God since the above verse came in the eigth month. God is not partial (Acts 10:34).

So far, we have explained two ways you can engage God and make Him speak to you. One way was what Habakkuk did.

Hab. 1:1-5.

 1  The following is the message which God revealed to Habakkuk the prophet:

 2  How long, LORD, must I cry for help? But you do not listen! I call out to you, “Violence!” But you do not intervene!

 3  Why do you force me to witness injustice? Why do you put up with wrongdoing? Destruction and violence confront me; conflict is present and one must endure strife.

 4  For this reason the law lacks power, and justice is never carried out. Indeed, the wicked intimidate the innocent. For this reason justice is perverted.

 5  “Look at the nations and pay attention! You will be shocked and amazed! For I will do something in your lifetime that you will not believe even though you are forewarned.

The other method was reporting back that we spoke about yesterday. When the Lord began to teach me about hearing Him around 1998-99, I nearly lost out because of lack of faith.

My heart kept querying, "How am I sure that it's God speaking?"

The Lord kept convincing me. He gave me many illustrations. One of them was to see myself as if I am speaking to a King or a big leader or commander. "Can another person answer you unless the big leader permits such a person?", He would ask.

Another prove that I should be able to hear Him was based on His word or promises. I particularly rejoiced to discover Jam. 1:5.

Jas 1:5 NET But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.

This was collaborated with Mt 7:7.

Mat 7:7 NET “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.

Mat 7:8 NET For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Inpite of these, I know that I sometimes miss His will. Yet I could not accuse Him of lying. Then I had this experience I must have talked about before. I took a dictation about the kinds of persons that are expected to be in a meeting I was going to take in the evening. Every case I called, nobody came out. I went back to my house angry.

It was at home that I asked Him why that happened. He simply said, "Are sure you were before Me when you heard all that?"

I remembered that I woke up that morning hearing, "Write...' and I wrote. Thereafter I became afraid of hearing voices. At a point I asked Him to stop me from hearing the voice of Satan. His answer was, "It's your right to hear both." And He showed me 

Joh 10:4 NET When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

Joh 10:5 NET They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger’s voice.”

That took me back to what I heard when He showed my ministry and calling (what He is in me to do) from the stories in 1 Chron 13 and 15. I am to do like David and coordinate His people to bring back the Ark, the presence of God or Christian revival. The gift is called 'governments' in 1Cor. 12:28. Other translations call it differently. It generally means "showing the way and making the people work together."

Every revivalist should do that. Davud did it and under-rated knowledge. That was why Uzza died. So I had the warning to work in ways that no Uzza die.

That is why I am writing - to point out the way and to make us work together and ways that no Uzza dies. One thing we all need is recognizing the voice of God. Ordinary letter kills.

2Co 3:6 NET who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

David only forgot the following verses and their implications.

Exo 25:14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them. 

Exo 25:15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it. 

Exo 35:12 The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,

Exo 37:5 And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark. 

That was the ignorance on the part of the leadership that killed Uzza. Such ignorance is not to be allowed. That is why hearing the One who does not sleep or forget is a must in revival. Many revivals have died because Uzza or something died. Many revivals have been stucked in the house of Obed-Edom because David, the revivalist, was no longer sure of the will of God.

We will stop here today and hope to show you tomorrow the best way to recognize the voice of God. 

Meanwhile, go to God and ask Him to do for you what He did for Isaiah.

Isa 50:4 NET The sovereign LORD has given me the capacity to be his spokesman, so that I know how to help the weary. He wakes me up every morning; he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do.

Ask Him to open your ears. If Isaiah was helped like that in the Old Testament, you stand a better chance of getting such help. 

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OUR SINS IN NIGERIA - Part 4

[6TH - 7TH SEPTEMBER 2021 - WISDOM FOR TODAY - events in the ninth month by Alex Oguh.

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Jer 36:9 KJV And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.

Jer 36:22 KJV Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.

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Forgive our inability to write and publish yesterday. It was because of power (electricity) shortage.

Our last surprise was that the Princes who were once shaken by what God was saying through Jeremiah, cooled off and their lives went normal again. That surprised me. So a man can be awakened by the Spirit of God and if he doesn't hold the conviction seriously, it can drop off?

It looks to me like that happened to our men and women who went to look for work in Northern Nigeria in the sixties. Many of our Christian men and women were given the option to change their religion and get jobs or remain Christians and be unemployed. Many became Muslims. I thought that those people didn't understand what they got in Christ. To my surprise, such exchanges are still happening till this day. Esau may take food in exchange for his position as the first born. Should we that have read about Esau and his losses make the same mistake? It's foolishness to do so.

SHOCK No. 4

Jer. 36: 20  The officials went to the king in the courtyard, but they deposited the scroll in the office of Elishama the scribe. Then they reported everything written on the scroll to the king.

 21  The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the office of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it to the king and to all the officials who were standing beside the king.

 22  The king was sitting in the winter palace in the ninth month and a stove was burning in front of him.

 23  As Jehudi would read three or four columns, the king would cut it with a scribe’s knife and throw it into the fire which was in the stove, until all the scroll was burned in the fire in the stove.

 24  The king and all his officials who were listening to these words were not afraid, nor did they tear their garments.

 25  Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

 26  The king ordered his son Jerahmeel, Azriel’s son Seraiah, and Abdeel’s son Shelemiah to get Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD had hidden them.

Why was I shocked? I was asking myself questions like:

1. Was Josiah, that great revivalist and lover of God, the father of this King? Jer. 36:1 tells that the King burning the word of God was a son of Josiah.

Jer 36:1 ISV In the fourth year of the reign of Josiah’s son King Jehoiakim of Judah, this message came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

2. Was he aware that it was God that put his grand father, David, on the throne and instituted that his descendants rule after him? Jehoiakim was on the throne as a result of that covenant. 

3. I wondered why this King could forget the fact that God powerfully helped his father, Josiah, and made him great. Was that a small thing in the eyes of this man now on the throne? Oh, God, help my descendants. Could this be why many children of men of God miss the God of their father?

4. I was even more surprised to see that the King ordered for the arrest of Jeremiah and his secretary, Baruch. I wonder why? 

Jer 36:26 ISV The king ordered his son Jerahmeel, Azriel’s son Seraiah, and Abdeel’s son Shelemiah to get Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD had hidden them.

That was my fourth shock. You are the King over your own life and over your own family and all that the Lord had put under your control. Your reaction to the word of God determines their own response.

When his father, Josiah, had the opportunity to hear what the Lord said about His people, he trembled and tore his clothes.

2 Kgs 22: 10  Then Shaphan the scribe informed the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” Then Shaphan read from it in the king’s presence.

 11  When the king heard what was written in the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes

 12  and issued these orders to Hilkiah the priest, Shaphan’s son Ahikam, Micaiah’s son Achbor, Shaphan the scribe, and the king’s servant Asaiah:

 13  “Go ask the LORD for me, for the people, and for all of Judah about what’s written in this book that has been discovered, because the LORD’s anger is burning against us, since our ancestors have not listened to the words written in this book and have not lived according to everything that is written concerning us.”

It surprised me that what touched his father has no effect on him. This is a warning to me. It's possible for me to snob what led to revival in the past. It's possible for me to tear down what my spiritual fathers built. This is a warning to me. I must labour on my biological and spiritual children to understand the God of their father. 

It was not that it ended well with Jehoiakim.

Jer. 36:29  Concerning Jehoiakim, king of Judah, you are to say, ‘This is what the LORD says: “You burned this scroll, all the while saying, ‘Why did you write on it that the king of Babylon will definitely come, destroy this land, and eliminate both people and animals from it?’”

 30  Therefore, this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim, king of Judah, “He will have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his corpse will be thrown out to rot during the heat of the day and the frost of the night.

 31  I’ll punish him, his descendants, and his officials for their iniquity. I’ll bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah all the calamity about which I’ve warned them, but they would not listen.”’”

His end was recorded in 2 Kgs 24:1-6. It must have been in wars - for he had no descent burial.

May your case be different. Judah was eventually exiled out of the land. May our case be different. May this be the type of thing we should hold unto God for. How unwise to amass wealth when war that can destroy you and the properties is in the corner?

May your case be different. May the case of Nigeria be different in Jesus name. May we vote wisely. It's foolishness to put a man that can burn the word of God on the throne. Whoever supports such a man to win election must share in the government's sins. May you be wise.

Alex Oguh

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