Godliness is Profitable unto all things

GODLINESS IS PROFITABLE UNTO ALL THINGS

There is profit when you live a godly life.  Daniel proposed in his heart that he will not do it.  With the fear of God he was able to carry it out.

Daniel 1:8

8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs

that he might not defile himself.

Paul in 1 Cor 15:10 says I am what I am by the grace of God.  Before the grace of God came upon him he labored.  You must exercise yourself and let go some things so that you can live a life that please God.  You must let go.

1THESSALONIANS 2

10 Ye are witnesses and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

Paul has testimonies of godliness.  He was bold to boldly declare this.  The righteousness we are talking of here is the one we can testify of.  Paul was a man that possesses an insatiable hunger for godliness. 

In Ps 61:5, the Psalmist says he hunger as in a dry and a thirsty land.  Godliness and power answer to a genuine thirst.  You must desperately desire to please God.  Even when things seem the opposite, you still stand in righteousness.

Brother Matthew told us also that we should seek it first the kingdom of God and its righteousness and all these things that men are seeking shall be giving unto us.

Can you openly declare your righteousness in God? 

Phil 3:10-14

10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do , forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus

Saul who later became Paul was a persecutor but he forgot those things that would have weigh him down and started seeing who he really is.  God sees us through Jesus! Don’t look at what you did in the past that God has forgiven you for. The devil will always come with one useless pass!  He presses towards the mark before him.  Righteousness is a race!

What you should be looking at is the crown of glory that will be placed on you by God.  Don’t care how your opponent is carrying on with his race.  Press towards the mark!  We are all on a race.  Forget the things that are behind.  When you are running a race you don’t need any weight.  Weight can bring down.  So, sin is a weight which we must let go.  Whether open or secretly there is no body that carries load that can run so easily.  We must let go of that habit.

Paul also walked in love which is the bond of perfection.  Love is another weapon that we need in the race of righteousness.  Let us walk in love so that we will win the price at the end of the day.  If there is no price for the race, then it is worthless.  This is not only in heaven but here on earth.  Righteousness takes people up.  Abraham was righteous and was a prosperous man.  Job was a righteous man and he was a prosperous man.  Poverty is not a sign of righteousness.  Do not let people mislead you.  You can be rich and be holly.  Paul ended up the most celebrated.  When the people saw him they saw God’s likeness in him.   Paul was a man of unusual wisdom also 2 Pet 3:15.

2PETER 3

15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

He was the last but ended up being the most celebrated.  It does not matter when you gave your life to Jesus.  It is when you  receive the light that counts.  You will make it in Jesus name! Amen!

The power of the tongue Pt2

A mouth and a wisdom that will turn the table around for your testimony!  So for your situations to turn around for a testimony, you must understand what God has given you!  Your mouth has been given to you not just for eating and drinking but has been giving you as a weapon of war against all your adversaries.  I will give unto you a mouth and when you let my wisdom flow through that mouth, none of your adversary can gainsay nor resist it.  So you have a gift of destiny that determines where you are heading to.  You will not end up in a crash in the Name of Jesus Christ!  Now say it to yourself, “I have a mouth gift from my father who is in heaven as a weapon of war against all my adversaries in the journey of life.  I have a mouth gift and I am going to put my mouth to work so as to put my enemies off and lay hold to my testimony.  I like you to look at any challenge in your life and say to that challenge “you shall turn to me for a testimony”.  Any challenge in character, any challenge in relationship etc, I’ like you to say it with your mouth, I know you are turning to me for a testimony! Glory to God!  Any mark of the devil harassing your destiny in anyway, I know you shall turn to me for a testimony. In Jesus precious Name!

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The power of the tongue Pt1

THE POWER OF THE TONGUE –Pt 1 - Pst. Oni Maj

A woman was at the verge of total collapse when she ran to meet a prophet and she said my husband the prophet is dead and the creditor has come to take the sons away.  And Elisha said to her what do you have in your house.  That is to say that there is something within you that holds answer to that question of your life.  You have all it takes to be free.  You have all it takes to be full.  You have all it takes to excel! He said what has thou in thine house? There are many things we carry but we don’t know what they are worth.  I want you to lift up your voice to the Lord and ask him to open your eyes to see your worth.  Lord upon my eyes to see that you have placed within me that can provide an answer.  What has thou in thine house?   2 kings 4:2.  It shows a deplorable situation but there is something you can do to live that situation. From the word of God it is clear that every destiny is at the mercy of the tongue. In my Bible, I know that it is in your own too, I am told that life and deaths is at the power of the tongue Prov 18:.21.  So the tongue can determine how well you live or otherwise.   

They were about getting into Canaan and hakadesh bannier, twelve spice were sent to spy out the land and they came back and said we were not able to enter.  The people are too strong for us.  We saw the land that it is a land flowing with milk and honey but we can’t take it.  We were like ant’s before them. And the Lord held them and said as you have said, so shall it be.  Just to say it is impossible – then you find yourself a permanent victim of imperfection.  God was the one who said to them I am taking you to Canaan, but their mouth won’t let them to enter.  God is the one who said he has paid of our sins but it would require our mouth to enter into his righteousness.  The tongue!  In short, the bible says any man who does not know how to use his tongue, he said that man’s religion is vain. Vain means zero, nothing to show.  They could not enter the land because their tongue won’t let then enter.  How many are determine to enter into the kingdom of perfection? Come on say, I must enter. 

Now, And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

Num 14:26-28

That means your tongue is what determines what God does to you! It is so vital.  Jesus was speaking and he was talking about the challenges of the end time.  He said this has been ordained to turn to you for a testimony! I don’t know what challenges you might be facing right now, but God said, it has been programmed to turn to you for a testimony.  Amen!

And it shall turn to you for a testimony.

Luke 21:13

That is, very shortly you shall be able to say… be ye followers of me even as I follow Christ.  It will soon show that of a truth you are serving the living God.  And he gave them one weapon that will make this to happen in the gospel according to Luke

But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

 And it shall turn to you for a testimony.

Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:

For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

Luke 21 :12-15

So, no matter the persecution, it shall turn to you for a testimony.