Life on earth is a temporary assignment (II)

Continued from last edition

St. Paul was faithful to God, yet he ended up in prison. John the Baptist was faithful to God, and he was beheaded for it! Millions of faithful people have been martyred, have lost everything, or have come to the end of life with nothing to show for it in the world’s eyes. But the end of life is not the end!

In God’s eyes, the greatest heroes are not those who achieve prosperity, success, and power in this life, but those who treat this life as a temporary assignment and serve faithfully, expecting their promised reward in eternity. The Bible says this about God’s Hall of Fame: “All these great people died in faith. They did not get the things that God promised his people, but they saw them coming far in the future and were glad. They said they were like visitors and strangers on earth... they were looking forward to a better home in heaven. That’s why God wasn’t ashamed for them to call him their God. He even built a city for them.” (NCV) Hebrews 11:13, 16

“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.” Your time on earth is not the complete story of your life. You must wait until heaven for the rest of the chapters.

An old story is told of a retiring missionary coming home to America on the same boat as the President of the United States. Cheering crowds, a military band, a red carpet, banners, and the media welcomed the president home, but the missionary slipped off the ship unnoticed. Feeling self-pity and resentment, he began complailling to God. Then God gently reminded him, “But my child, ‘you are not home yet”

You will not be in heaven two seconds before you cry out, “why did I place so much importance on things that were so temporary? What was I thinking? Why did I waste so much time, energy and concern on that which wasn’t going to last?’

When life gets though, when you’re over-whelmed with doubt, or when you wonder if living God’s way is worth the effort, remember that you are not home yet! At death you wont leave home - you’ll go home.

NOTES: All bible quotes are taken from CEV – Contemporary English Version
GWT - God’s Word Translation
LB - Living Bible
MSG - The Message
NASB - New American Standard Bible
NCV - New Century Version
NIV - New International Version
NLT - New Living Translation
TEV - Today’s English Version.

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Dealing with ancestral altars

BY REV G.F. OYOR

Continued from last edition

If members of your family line are not in support of this prayer programme, continue to intercede on their behalf and separate your own family or self from the ancestral altar. Study the history of your family line to enable you minister deliverance effectively to your people. Remember, Jesus Christ is the city of refuge of every believer (Col 1:13; 2:10)

Prayer Points
•Let the power in the blood of Jesus separate me from any evil son of my ancestors

•I renounce every evil dedication placed upon my life in Jesus’ name

•I renounce any evil dedication placed upon my family life in Jesus name

•I bind all evil dominion and strong men of my ancestors operating over and around my life in Jesus’ name

•I bind every ancestral altar controlling my family in Jesus’ name

•Let the blood of Jesus purge me of every ancestral altar’s contamination in Jesus’ name

•Every chain of ancestral bondage in my life and family, receive destruction in Jesus’ name

•I release myself from every demonic pollution from ancestral altars in Jesus’ name

•I command every evil plantation through ancestral altar to be rooted out in Jesus’ name

•Every territorial demon that worked against my foundation while I was in my mother’s womb, receive fire of the Holy Ghost in Jesus’ name.

•Every evil power caging my destiny through ancestral altar receive destruction in Jesus’ name

•Every evil power speaking delay, stagnancy, rejection and hatred into my destiny be terminated in Jesus’ name.

•Any ancestral altar using my placenta against my life, release me now by fire in Jesus’ name

•Every ancestral demon assigned to waste my destiny, receive the judgment of fire of the Holy Ghost.

•God of great deliverance pass over my life and family to deliver and heal us from ancestral bondages in Jesus’ name.

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