KingdomFirst TV

05/11/2024

It is true that nations are not built directly by prayer, they are built through wisdom. We, however, get wisdom through prayer.

Proverbs 24:3
"Through wisdom is a house builded; and by understanding it is established:"

James 1:5
"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him."

Prayer has therefore been deployed in history as a tool in nation building, with the right type of prayers being offered.

Solomon's first request from God when he became king of a nation was for wisdom from God. Praying was an essential part of his life.

Even Nebbuchadnezzar, who wasn't aware or conscious of God's involvement in his affairs, had to learn the hard way that the wisdom he used in building the Babylonian empire actually came from God.

He was sent into the wilderness for 7 years until he realised that it was God all the while who blessed him with wisdom.

Daniel 4:33-34
"The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation"

God does teach men how to do things if they ask him to. Prayer is a powerful tool if deployed as instructed by God. Even the farmer who finds new methods of farming more effectively gets his inspiration from God.

Isaiah 28:24-26
24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cu**in, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

14/09/2024

I met with a young person recently who made a position known to me on a subject in the Bible. When I showed a couple of scriptures that contradicted his opinion his reply was it was the report of the apostle about what Jesus did and not the exact words of Jesus himself so it shouldn't be treated as being accurate.

My question, therefore, is which scripture written wasn't penned by a human agent ?

Even the ones that are recorded "God said" really you can say it's Paul or Jeremiah's account of what they heard God say and they may have interpreted wrongly.

This, you can say to any scripture that doesn't fit your position.

All the gospels are accounts of what the 4 disciples say Jesus said.

We are beginning on a dangerous path to discredit the scriptures, and it is purely an attack on the move of the Spirit in this country.

Yes, due to certain issues we will discuss later, Charlatans infiltrated the move of the Spirit in this country and other parts, and it was purely to make mercahndise of God's people. They saw a weakness which was ignorance and exploited it.

This came because we grew churches without necessarily insisting on basic discipleship marked by the Spirit illuminating the minds of our listeners without which they will receive no revelation, but it will register as the teaching of men.

Paul spoke by revelation and not a humanistic understanding.

Galatians 1:12
"For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ."

Without a personal revelation of truth embraced, we are left with weakness.

Many heard, but never with their own eyes saw what was said, and so they practised things they didn't understand but simply because they were told to.

Many need a Job moment.

Job 42:5
"I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee."

The disappointments people have had with some ministers should not be exploited for selfish reasons. Some even today are still doing this while "battling false doctrines."

We are sounding an alarm that aethism is creeping in, and there is an attack on the validity of the scriptures as the written word of God.

I believe some of the Ministers pushing this thing don't even know the unintended consequence of what they are doing. A younger generation will arise that will say outlandish things and "upstage" them in this path. They themselves will be left bewildered

A watchman stands on the tower to see what is far ahead and sounds the alarm about what is coming.

I urge local pastors to ground their congregation in scriptural teachings.

Pray Ephesians 1: 16-18 daily over them. Only those who have the spirit of wisdom and revelation resting upon them will discern.

You are helpless without the spirit of wisdom and revelation.

It is imperative.

02/09/2024

It's important as a Christian to think like a son to whom all things have already been given rather than think like a slave who believes otherwise. Both may serve, but outcomes will be different.

There is a son-servant and then a slave-servant. It has to do with the mindset. "To him that hath is more given but to him that hath not even that which he has shall be taken"

The elder brother in the prodigal son's story served not as a son but as a slave. This led to envy and jealousy. His father had to rebuke him saying "all that I have is yours."

First, be established in your relationship with God as your father, who has provided all things and with that serve humanity from a position of having an abundance of all things.

21/08/2024

It doesn't have to be either or......

Many in ministry have adopted the posture of (saying in a simplistic way), "I teach principles and believe in the process while the other does power manifestations."

Another side glorifies power above principles.

Jesus never separated wisdom and power. They are joined at the hips. He said to some folks

Matthew 22:29
"Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God."

Paul also had this twin operation in his ministry.

1 Corinthians 2:4-6

"4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought."

Paul the Apostle had both streams in him, the power stream and the wisdom stream.

It does not have to be either or.

The beginning of every tree ministry is found in receiving power to fulfil the mandate.

Luke 24:49
"And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high."

Luke 4:14-15
14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.

15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all."

He received power and taught. They are joined or the ministry is incomplete.

20/08/2024

WHO IS APOSTLE JOSEPH AYO BABALOLA?

Joseph Ayodele Babalola was born on April 25, 1904 to David Rotimi and Madam Marta Talabi who belonged to the Anglican Church. The family lived at Odo-Owa in Ilofa, a small town about ninety kilometres from Ilorin in Kwara State, Nigeria. His father was the Baba Ijo (“church father”) of the C.M.S. Church at Odo-Owa. Pastor Medayese wrote in his book Itan Igbe dide Woli Ayo Babalola that mysterious circumstances surrounded the birth of Babalola. On that day, it was believed that a strange and mighty object exploded and shook the clouds.

On January 18, 1914, young Babalola was taken by his brother M. 0. Rotimi, a Sunday school teacher in the C.M.S. Church at Ilofa, to Osogbo. Babalola started school at Ilofa and got as far as standard five at All Saints’ School, Osogbo. However, he quit school when he decided to learn a trade and became a motor mechanic apprentice. Again, he did not continue long in this vocation before joining the Public Works Department (PWD). He was among the road workers who constructed the road from Igbara-Oke to Ilesa, working as a steam roller driver.

Babalola’s Call to the Prophetic Ministry

Just like the Old Testament prophets, Babalola was called by God into the prophetic office to stand before men. His was a specific and personal call.

Babalola’s strange experience started on the night of September 25th, 1928 when he suddenly became restless and could not sleep. This went on for a week and he had no inkling of the causes of such a strange experience. The climax came one day when he was, as usual, working on the Ilesa-Igbara-Oke road. Suddenly the steam roller’s engin stopped to his utter amazement. There was no visible mechanical problem, and Joseph became confused and perplexed. He was in this state of confusion when a great voice “like the sound of many waters” called him three times. The voice was loud and clear and it told him that he would die if he refused to heed the divine call to go into the world and preach. Babalola did not want to listen to this voice and he responded like many of the Biblical prophets, who, when they were called out by Yahweh as prophets, did not normally yield to the first call. Men like Moses and Jeremiah submitted to God only when it became inevitable. So, Babalola gave in only after he had received the assurance of divine guidance.

To go on the mission, he had to resign his appointment with the Public Works Department. Mr. Fergusson, the head of his unit, tried to dissuade him from resigning but the young man was bent on going on the Lord’s mission.

The same voice came to Joseph a second time asking him to fast for seven days. He obeyed and at the end of the period he saw a great figure of a man who, according to Pastor Alokan, resembled Jesus. The man in a dazzling robe spoke at length about the mission he was to embark upon. The man also told him of the persecutions he would face and at the same time assured him of God’s protection and victory. A hand prayer bell was given to Babalola as a symbol. He was told that the sound of the bell would always drive away evil spirits. He was also given a bottle of “life-giving water” to heal all manners of sickness. Consequently, wherever and whenever he prayed into water for therapeutic purposes, effective healing was procured for those who drank the water. Thus, Babalola became a prophet and a man with extraordinary powers. Enabled by the power of the Holy Spirit he could spend several weeks in prayer. Elder Abraham Owoyemi of Odo-Owa, said that the prophet regularly saw angels who delivered divine messages to him. An angel appeared in one of his prayers and forbade him to wear caps. To be continued..

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. - Matthew 6.33.KJV

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28/06/2024

ECUMENISM IS NOT CHRISTIANITY 1

Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism (Ephesians 4:3-5, NKJV)

There is such a thing as the unity of the spirit! It is the unity of believers in Christ that is exclusively sponsored by the Holy Spirit. Nothing more, nothing less!

Each time man tampers with the One Spirit, faith, baptism and drink by creating unions in the flesh, what results is known as ecumenism. Ecumenism seems like a big word, but its application is even more sinister. It disregards the role of the Holy Spirit in genuinely constituting the body of Christ and instead relies on human effort to achieve unity. So, instead of having a body of believers united in Christ by the Holy Spirit, we have a contraption of people politicking for religious relevance.

The principle of ecumenism is universalism. It is when goats pretend to lay eggs and chickens pretend to calve! It is when the body of Christ accepts the fellowship of those who are not born again, who have not been baptized by the One Spirit of God and have not drunk of the same Spirit. There is just no need to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved. There is no need to be born again, therefore completely ignoring the primary importance of the salvific work of Jesus! Ecumenism is not Christianity because Christianity has Christ as its foundation, center, circumference and limit. Whereas ecumenism is a collage of all things religious. Anything outside of Christ is not Christianity!

To be continued...

Culled from my new book, A TREATISE ON CHRISTIAN MINISTRY
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With love from your brother,

Arome Osayi