God's Recipe For Wellness - Emaobong Ekpenyong

3 John 2 TPT

Beloved friend, I pray that you are prospering in every way and that you continually enjoy good health, just as your soul is prospering.

God wants us to live in health, so He gave us a guide book for life called the Bible.

Through the Bible, God sends us messages that tell us to be happy. Why, you ask?

Happiness does good like medicine. Basically, it does everything that medicine does; it relieves pain, cures diseases and helps to give the body vital nutrients. God wants us to be happy.

In order to stay happy, we need to trust God always and not let problems weigh us down. We ought to forgive easily and remember the good He has done in the past.

Secondly, the Bible says in Proverbs 4:20-22 that God's word is life and health to those who find them. 

Therefore, we should always read, confess and meditate on the word. As we do this, it gives vitality to our body and mind.

Glory!

Check:

Proverbs 17:22

John 16:33

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The Same Stock - Pastor Ekpenyong

Mark 7:37Weymouth 

“The amazement was extreme.”He succeeds in everything he attempts," they exclaimed; "he even makes deaf men hear and dumb men speak!"”

One big lie that the devil has sponsored through the ages and that has been accepted by Christians is that there is a difference between Christ Jesus and Christ in you.

It is on this premise that you find it easier for believers to relate with the woman with the issue of blood who needed to touch the helm of Jesus’ garment than for them to see themselves as one with the One who had His garment touched.

Until you absorb the truth in the scriptures that we are one spirit with the LORD, that as He is so are we in this world, you will perpetually find yourself at loggerheads with us being of the same stock as Him.

The essence of our opening text is not so that we would marvel as did the Jews, but that we see that that account applies also to us today. “we succeed in everything we attempt.”

Accepting this truth will change the way and manner you see and talk about yourself and will change the outcomes of your endeavours; for in truth we are of the same stock.

Glory!

Check:

1 John 4:17

1 Corinthians 6:17

Matthew 9:20-22

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What Are You Waiting For - Pastor Ekpenyong

Exodus 8:9-10TLB

“Be so kind as to tell me when you want them to go,” Moses said, “and I will pray that the frogs will die at the time you specify, everywhere except in the river.”“Do it tomorrow,” Pharaoh said. “All right,” Moses replied, “it shall be as you have said; then you will know that there is no one like the Lord our God."

A person could be so overwhelmed by a challenge that there may be no possibility of change in sight, at least not in the present, which makes people hope that someday-sometime God in His infinite mercy may cause a change.

As noble as this thought, it is rife with unbelief because what we are hoping for in the future can be delivered to you now.

Do you really want to get well, or do you just want to talk about your problem? Sometimes people get addicted to having a problem. It becomes their identity, their life. It defines everything they think and say and do. All their being is centered around that particular problem.

The context of our opening scripture shows Pharaoh besieging Moses to intercede on their behalf that the frogs that God had plagued Egypt with be evacuated and Moses asked when he wanted it done and Pharaoh said tomorrow.

Who wants to live with a plague for one more night?

But that’s what happens when we choose to tolerate the mess of the devil hoping that someday God will do something; when He’s done all and given us the authority to function in His name.

Faith is now and insists on taking the delivery of all that’s in the package of the new birth now.

Decide to walk in victory now and you’ll see that the devil cannot resist you.

Glory!

CHECK:

John 5:5-6

Exodus 8:8-10

Hebrews 11:1

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See How Kind He Is - Pastor Ekpenyong

Psalms 34:8TPT 

"Drink deeply of the pleasures of this God. Experience for yourself the joyous mercies he gives to all who turn to hide themselves in him."

Our Father is good and irreversibly so. This implies His personal involvement and commitment to us is beyond the rule of law.

Unfortunately, many are judging our Good Father based on their experiences and what someone told them about their Heavenly Father. When it is our responsibility to find out from all He's revealed in His word and be persuaded by same.

What we must realise and always remember is that our Father’s goodness dates way back even before each of us was born. 

Therefore, it never really should be a question of whether He will do good but about how well we are persuaded about His goodness.

Choose to believe in His goodness, His commitment to you and His faithfulness to fulfil His Word to you.

You will never be overcome by the challenges of life because our faithful Father has assured that He will never give you more than we can bear nor leave you to yourself. 

Refuse to be pressured into anxiety, fear and doubt because the Father in His characteristic nature will never leave nor abandon you; regardless of where you are and the stage of your journey. 

Give Him a chance to show you how good He is. Do you not know that it is the fulfillment of the Father to bring you blessings?”

Glory!

Check:

1Corinthians 10:13

Exodus 13:17

Romans 2:4

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Enjoy What You Do - Pastor Ekpenyong

Pro.22:29 TPT

If you are uniquely gifted in your work, you will rise and be promoted. You won’t be held back — you’ll stand before kings!

It is impossible to succeed at something you do not enjoy.

Some people will tell you that they are just patching with the job at hand whilst not realizing that they are unawares wasting away their golden lives and opportunities.

This is because the activity that absorbs a major portion of our lives is our jobs.

The secret to satisfaction and fulfillment in our work is not doing what one likes, but liking what one does.

God created man to fellowship and to work. Work being our great platform to display the effect of the rub-off from His presence that is cultivated in fellowship.

Martin Luther King Jr. said, “If a man is called to be a sweeper, he should sweep streets as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well so that all the host of heaven and earth will pause and say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

Realise that through your work, you are leaving your imprints. So that those who come by will see the quality of your personality and values you uphold.

As you heartily do your job, unbelievable and prolific access is granted you.

Do your work heartily as if God is watching, because He is!

Glory!

CHECK:

2 Thessalonians 3:10

Ephesians 6:5-8

Ecclesiatis 8:9

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The Work Of Rhema - Pastor Ekpenyong

Matthew 4:4TPT 

He answered, “The Scriptures say: Bread alone will not satisfy, but true life is found in every word, which constantly goes forth from God’s mouth.”

Rhema is an inspired Word birthed within your own spirit, a whisper from the Holy Spirit like the still, small voice that spoke to Elijah in the cave.

Rhema is a broad term that includes many types of spiritual interaction; any method God uses to reveal His specific will to an individual, whether by divinely directed desire, illumination, revelation, vision, or dream.

It is a divinely inspired impression upon your soul, a flash of thought or a creative idea from God. It is conceived in your spirit, but birthed into your natural understanding by divine illumination.

A true rhema carries with it a deep inner assurance and witness of the Spirit.

God is using His rhema to do His work, and He desires to speak to us.

Therefore, if our purpose in reading the Scriptures is solely for knowledge, it is indeed pitiful. For the written code kills, but it is the Spirit that gives life.

It is with rhema that we can actively win and gain mastery in our affairs.

Therefore, God works with rhema in our lives to ignite our faith and we work with rhema in working out the victory we have received.

Glory!

Check:

Acts 10:22

1Kings 19:12

2 Corinthians 3:6

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Deepen Your Conviction - Pastor Ekpenyong

Hebrews 2:14-15TPT

14 Since all his “children” have flesh and blood, so Jesus became human to fully identify with us. He did this, so that he could experience death and annihilate the effects of the intimidating accuser who holds against us the power of death.

15 By embracing death Jesus sets free those who live their entire lives in bondage to the tormenting dread of death.

The reality of the finished works of Christ is yet to dawn in the hearts of believers as it ought.

Many are still yearning for freedom from satan and his works whereas, he has been brought to naught and made of no effect by the substitutionary work of our LORD Jesus Christ.

For as long as the believer, believes the lie of the devil who is the father of lies and deception, that’s how long he’ll remain under servitude and bondage.

It is important to note that every lie of the devil believed is because of ignorance of the finished works.

One might wonder how that ignorance of the finished works can keep someone in bondage. When we're all aware that He died for our sin and was raised for our justification.

What anyone on the path of discovery will tell you is that, the more you receive revelation knowledge, the more you'll find that ignorance is not just the lack of awareness but the lack of persuasion which is a product of conviction in the truth.

Take time in the study and meditation of the word, read sound books and listen to the teaching and preaching of the word. For this is how we grow and deepen our convictions and hence make this our reality.

Glory!

Check: 

1Timothy 4:13-16

Daniel 9:2

Acts 20:32

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