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10.04.2015

True Deliverance

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True Deliverance from the effects of sins can only take place through true repentance. The consequences of sins is death and death is a curse. We need to repent from sins in order for us to have true deliverance from the consequences of sins. The truth of the matter however, is that people wants deliverance, the blessings of God, breakthroughs of all sorts, but not the holiness and righteousness of God.

Seeking for true deliverance, blessings breakthroughs and so on and so forth outside of a will and desire for God’s righteousness and holiness to end up heavily deceived by the devil. If indeed our true desire are to do with abiding in the righteousness and holiness of God, then we will not be chasing after true deliverance and so on away from the atonement and remission blood of Jesus Christ.

"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world" (1 John 4:1).

There are all kinds of things done in the so called church arena today all in the name of true deliverance. The variety of activities termed as deliverance or deemed as religious acts for breakthroughs includes;

  • The endless drinking and rubbing of olive oil,
  • People summersaulting from one end to the other at the waving of the hands of a professed man or woman of God,
  • People endlessly bathing in rivers, washing with one soap or the or other, and shockingly enough recently,
  • The eating of grass.
God’s Word Is Our Weaponof Dicernment:

Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding of the Word of God in its whole contextual form is that true deliverance from sins and consequences of sins, which is death is possible only through the atonement and remission blood of Jesus Christ. What greater breakthrough can we possibly have beyond overcoming death and sin through the remission and atonement blood of Jesus? (Revelation12:11).

One cannot but wonder sometimes as to why people who are already experiencing all kinds of financial hardship are vigorously and readily prepared to partake in all manner of things all in the name of true deliverance for instance:

  • The purchasing of expensive soap and water
  • Sow their so called monetary seed blindly due their covetousness
  • Invest in overly priced bottles of olive oil all in the name of deliverance
  • Jumping from one deliverance conference to another seeking blindly for breakthroughs and deliverance when the blood of Jesus is actually freely available and it is in fact the only thing that can do the job they are after.
The Power behind Deliverance:

The power of true deliverance belongs to God and not man. The power and blessings of God are of course not for sale. There are no amount of tithes or monetary seeds we can ever sow, that entitle us to having God's power or His true blessings. Our only means of activating God's blessings upon our lives is to desire His righteousness and holiness with a genuine heart of humility.

Sow Your Seed in Obedience and Not In Covetousness:

Whilst it is good to support the work of God with monetary seeds, it is important we understand that the one thing God first and foremost needs from us is actually our hearts so He can circumcise it and make us ready for eternal abiding with Him in His everlasting kingdom, and not at all our money (Mathew 6:33).

The work of God is already finished, done and dusted in Christ. And none can be a partaker of the endless blessings attached to God's finished work outside of blood of Jesus Christ. Therefore, whosoever seeks to obtain the blessings of God outside of the blood of Jesus will only end up deeper in sin and in bondage. The work of God can indeed do with our monetary support, it is important that we only sow our seeds in heart of obedience so that we avoid  supporting all the wrong causes in the gambling mind-set of  'if I sow this amount, God will double it shake it all together and give it back to me'.

Always Give With a Circumcised Heart:

We will only succeed in sowing the right seeds in the right kingdom soil to the glory of God if our hearts are first and foremost circumcised. Any seed sowed out of greed, lusts, and fleshy desires and with an uncircumcised heart is guaranteed to fall into dry land. A seed that is sowed with the wrong heart into the wrong foundational ground cannot produce any genuine harvests, real breakthroughs or good returns from God for the human sower of the seed. We must always sow our seeds with a heart full of humility and in obedience to God. Supporting any so-called ministry work in gambling mind-set is to end up duped by those whose primary intentions are to collect the little you have from you and leave you out of pocket for the sake of enriching themselves and feeding their fleshy lusts.

Don’t Confuse Magic with Miracle:

God Is, Was, and forever shall be the Almighty and All-powerful God. God has indeed called us to function and operate in His dominion power and authority. However, we can only have and operate in God’s dominion power and authority if we are in reconciliation with His Holy Spirit through Christ and not outside of His Holy Spirit.

Whilst I fully understand the manifested authority of God takes place through the laying of our anointed hands, it is essential that we do not readily consider every act of laying of hands as an act of God. The devil as a counterfeiter has also appointed his agents to lay evil hands on people.  And it is extremely important that we do not confuse the devil's evil show business of masquerading the unleashing of demons on people through the laying of hands by his agents with the Father's own manifestation of His deliverance through the laying of hands of His truly appointed.

Surrender Your All to Christ Jesus:

God's true deliverance power is executed through the power and authority that He has invested in the name of Jesus Christ. God will indeed afford us freedom and true deliverance from sins and give us complete breakthrough from everything the devil can possibly use to give us a breakdown if we truly surrender our hearts to Christ as God's holiness and righteousness manifested in the flesh. The power of God is not for show or entertainment.

Anything that is for show is not of God but of the devil. In this crucial hour of the end times and with the influx of all kinds of show business and entertainment going on in the Church arena that are masqueraded as manifestations of God's deliverance power, it is indeed important like never before for us to operate in Godly discernment and thoroughly test all spirits as highlighted in the Bible (1 John 4:1-4).

Jesus Christ is still in the business of delivrance today! I am a living testimony. You can read all about my testimony of salvation and true deliverance by downloading my free ebook and reading sample chapterof my heaven and hell encounter from here

Where There Is Remission – No More Offering For Sins:

Hebrews 10:14-18

"For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin".

 

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Pastor Olabisi

Pastor Olabisi was a mother, Senior Pastor, Evangelist, Prophet,Teacher, Psalmist, Author, Writer, Publisher and a Housing Practitioner.

She set up Encouraged by God as a means of encouraging and strengthening the faith of Christians everywhere.

 

Lived and died in Christ, 06 October 2016, aged 49 years old.

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Rejoice! Rejoice and rejoice. For the LORD is good and the infinite joy of our timeless God is forever our strength (Nehemiah 8:10). Amen.

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.” ~Isaiah 61:10-11

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." ~Jeremiah 29:11

Discernment

Discernment is simply the ability to tell right from wrong. We can only make the right decisions in all realms of existence and avoid the spiritual consequences of wrong decisions if we are able to see and judge things clearly for what they are and not from a physical blind spot. As believers of Christ, we are meant to always operate by Godly discernment and not through our fleshy inclined feelings of emotions. The devil constantly targets the mind with negative thoughts in order to activate negative emotional feelings. The devil knows that negative emotional feelings is an aspect of weakness shared by man in common. Emotions distorts reasoning and clogs up the thought process. Emotions not only makes us to feel detached from God but it also terribly impairs the mind and adversely affect it from reasoning in alignment with God's  perfect Will and desires for our lives. Emotions blinds the eyes from seeing the spiritual evidence. It focuses the eyes primarily on physical evidence, which of course in reality sense is not the whole true picture. The devil as a chief deceiver of course knows for a fact that the physical world is not the real world. The devil also knows that as long as people make decisions based only on what they can physically see, spiritual truth will continue to elude them. The number one priority of the devil therefore is to manipulate physical evidence and deceive people with the manipulated physical evidence to make wrong spiritual judgement and decisions. The devil as a common enemy of mankind  does not want people to think there is anything called spiritual realm, which is the real realm let alone believe that God even exist. The wiles of the devil are beyond the human scope of articulations and reasonings. And unfortunately, the devil has through his wicked wiles entrapped many people in the world in spiritual darkness through his evil deceptions!

The world is actually spinning right before our eyes with a spin wheel of lies and deception. And in the midst of all the euphoria that are being created by the spin wheel of lies, it is very unfortunate that people who claim to be believers of Christ and who are meant to be living by faith and not by sight have fallen victim to the regime of sight. The world rhetorics is now what is used and relied upon by many as intelligent statements. The worldly role models have found their ways into the arena of the Church through their forbidden knowledge writings that are masqueraded as high intelligent 'inspirational' quotes or words. The words of man is now preferred over the Word of God. The truth is constantly being manipulated by the agents of Satan that are masquerading themselves as saints of Christ in the so called Christianity arena. There seem to be no ending at sight to the debate of how wide the so called church should open its door to accommodate sin and please the wilful sinner. The truth is twisted to suit individual's empire building mandate, and holiness and righteousness is no longer at the heart of the teachings of the Church. The preferred trend now in the so called church arena is all to do with ministering to people's problems and not to their souls. The struggle for natural world survival and aggressive pursuit of financial breakthroughs has made many to become completely blinded in the spirit and entirely vulnerable to terrible deception. The Church that is meant to impact the world has widely opened its door wide not to call in sinners to repent but for the world to impact the Word and change the Church from being the headquarter of God as Word, to becoming the headquarter of sin and worldliness!

The enemies of Christianity are no longer the official non Christians. But the so called Christians who are in fact officially a non Christian from a spiritual perspective. The people who  are now most vocal against the preachers of truth and who are prepared to go out of their way to discourage and rudely tell off a preacher of truth are in fact no longer so to speak 'non Christians.' Rather, they are the people who claim to be Christians but whose ways and actions in reality goes to show that they are in fact not at all of Christ or for Christ, but of the antichrist and for the antichrist. The preachers of truth are labelled as either jealous of so called successful pastors or as some sort of bigots or bitter minded hateful people. The ears have become itchy and many are indeed suffering from the famine of hearing the true Word of God.  The need to operate and walk in spiritual discernment is now a strange concept to many so called professed Christians. Many are simply walking by sight and no longer by faith. The truth is no longer seen from God's own divine perspective but subjectively dictated and interpreted by man to suit their own sinful rebellious agenda. The devil is seductively deceiving many to believe they are in control and many indeed are convinced that they are full of so much power therefore unstoppable. The rush to follow and look up to orators of flesh as role models instead of following and looking up to Jesus, increases day by day. Many people are labouring in vain and fulfilling the empire building objective of man in the believe mindset that they are in fact serving in the righteous vineyard of God and advancing His kingdom. The true vineyard of God is in huge shortage of true labourers and the camp of righteous preachers of truth is constantly looking and appearing physically desolate. From a physical perspective it seems as if the rebellious Satan's camp is winning and unstoppable!  The truth from a spiritual perspective however is that Satan is for ever a loser and those that follows his rebellious footsteps will only end up as losers!

Jesus is for ever LORD and Satan is for ever a LOSER AND LIAR! Therefore, whilst it might seem from a physical perspective as if Satan is winning, the truth is that Satan has lost his entire battles even before the foundation of the world (Revelation 12:7-12). All his hype is simply to create terrible tension, generate fear and distract people from focusing on what counts most, which is salvation and redemption for eternal life purposes. Today, seek God to open your spiritual eyes of understanding so that you can operate in His power of discernment and clearly see things for what they are and not just follow the crowd blindly! Live by faith and not by sight and always test all spirits. Don't see yourself as 'knowing all' already therefore nothing further to learn. You attitude of 'you already know all there is to know' will only block your ears to knowing what God wants you to learn, see and understand for the sake of your growth and maturity.  Ask God daily to order your footsteps and for Him to lead you by His power and auction of His Holy Spirit. You can only grow and mature where God plants you and God will only plant you in His righteous foundation and make you fruitful.  Don't just join a church because of what you can physically see or because of your own personal ambitions for breakthroughs and so on. Don't just rely on what a so called man or woman of God says. Test all spirits, get your relationship right with God, and earnestly rely and depend on Him daily to discern for you. I pray the good LORD will help us all in Jesus mighty name. Amen.

"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world." ~1 John 4:1
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