The Theme of this year’s Mother’s Day celebration as inspired by the Holy Spirit is Ephphatha which means be opened. I believe it ties in so well with our Theme for the month which is Divine Help made available, God Almighty is saying to us, that He has set before us an Open Door, an effectual (successful in producing a desired or intended result) door that will usher us into another realm of His Apostolic grace and power in this year 2018 and beyond.

John 10:9-16 says:  ⁹ I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.¹⁰ The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. ¹¹ I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. ¹² But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. ¹³ The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. ¹⁴ I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. ¹⁵ As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶ And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

Our Lord Jesus is the key of David (The key of David: is actually Christ’s gospel—the good news He brought when He came to Earth! It gives you a specific understanding of that gospel, and it adds a royal dimension). His Father, our Father in heaven sowed him as a seed, so He can gain you and I: he is the seed of corn he was referring to in John 12:24 (Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit).

He said in his word that He is the Door. He is the only one that can open and no one can shut, what He shuts, no man can open.

Proverbs 18:16 (New Living Translation).

Giving a gift can open doors, it gives access to important people.

Our main example will be taken from 2 Kings 4:9-37

A story we might be very familiar with. The woman of Shunem.

The bible introduced her as a Great woman (a woman of affluence & influence) A wise woman because the bible made us understand that she perceived that Elisha was a holy man of God, in other words, she had the spirit of discernment (this is a gift every woman must pray the Holy Spirit to release to her, because it will help us immensely in our role as Daughters, Wives, & Mothers after God’s own heart). If the woman of Shunem did not have this virtue and was not obedient to the Spirit of God that helped perceive that Elisha was a holy man of God and she proceeded to do him good by giving, she would have died a barren woman.

The Bible makes us understand that she said to her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.

Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall and let us set for him there a bed and a table and a stool and a candlestick and it shall be, when he cometh to us and he shall turn in thither.

She was a wise woman, she asked He husband for permission & his consent to do all this for Elisha, and her husband did not object because is heart safely trusted in her.

Proverbs 31:14-15 says “The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

Proverbs 18:22 ‘He who finds a wife, finds a good thing, and obtains favour from the Lord”.

The Bible makes us understand that not too long after she did this good deed, her giving became a gateway to an open door of favour and fruitfulness. She seemed to have everything but there was something lacking in her life, she was childless, but Jehovah the re-writer of destiny decided to pay her a visit through Prophet Elisha and blessed her with a son.

Jehovah will visit someone here today, He will change your story, He will change your name, He will give you a new song and dance, He will roll away your reproach amongst men, He will fill your mouth with laughter, He will make your Joy full, He will open doors of favour, success, divine opportunities & ideas for you and He will grant you the Grace to enter through these doors into your season of breakthrough & Glory in Jesus Mighty name.

The sermon, Your Giving: The Gateway To Open Door, By Pastor (Mrs) Anthonia Obafaiye, was delivered on March 11th, 2018 on the occasion of the 2018 Mother’s Day.

Wait For It; It Shall Surely Come To Pass, by Pastor (Mrs) Anthonia Obafaiye

Text: Habakkuk 2:3 – ‘For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie, though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come, it will not tarry’.

The month of December 2018 has been declared a month of Timely Delivery by God Almighty through The Angel of His Church as inspired by the Holy Spirit.

I have come to announce to someone here today, that God has not forgotten you or the promise He made to you, He says you should wait for it because it will surely come to pass in Jesus name.

Brethren it does not take God one second to change your life and destiny for His Glory.

The meaning of Timely: Something that is done or comes at a favourable or useful time.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 says: He has made everything beautiful in His time.

The meaning of Delivery: the action of delivering letters, parcels or goods. The process of giving birth; (God will make you to give birth to your Isaac, Samuel, John, Divine ideas in Jesus name)

Brethren God loves us indeed and He is mindful of us and thinks and cares about our welfare.

I would say what a time for this word to come to us because we are approaching the end of the year 2017 and He is reminding us that each of His promises over us He has not forgotten and He will deliver to us timely in Jesus mighty name.

The Bible says in Proverbs 23:18 ‘surely there is an end to everything and the expectations of the righteous will not be cut off in Jesus name.

Luke 1:45 says: ‘And blessed is she that believed, for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her/him from the Lord.’

Even the coming our Lord Jesus whom we celebrate today and always was timely: Galatians 4:4 ‘But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.

Brethren from my little walk with God, I have come to an understanding that God is never late, He is always on time, but if you do think He is late, it is because He wants to come bigger and I pray He comes like that for you in Jesus name.

As led by the Spirit of the Lord we will be looking at the life of Hezekiah and the main accounts of Hezekiah’s reign are found in 2 Kings Chapters 18-20 Isaiah 36-39 and 2 Chronicles 29-32.

Hezekiah came to the throne of Judah at the age of 25 years. He ruled with his whole heart by zealous enthusiasm for God, which spread to the people of Judah and throughout Israel.

He showed great humility and wisdom and God caused him to prosper through tremendous blessings.

Hezekiah became famous for many things, but I want to look at just one of the reasons why God blessed Hezekiah so abundantly.

Ironically Hezekiah grew up under the rule of his wicked father Ahaz, so he didn’t exactly have a good role model to look to. King Ahaz faltered in every conceivable way against God, even sacrificing one of his sons to Molech through the fire (2 Kings 16:1-4). Perhaps Ahaz had no time or interest in his son and instead Hezekiah was influenced by his mother Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. In an event, Hezekiah immediately changed everything once he assumed the throne and God gave him the power to do so. God gave him the Hebrew Prophet Isaiah to help him throughout his life.

In the first month of his reign, Hezekiah immediately got to work and smashed down all the pagan altars and wooden images throughout the hills of Judah. He began to clean out and repair the temple and restored temple worship.

In 2 Kings 18:5-7 we are told that Hezekiah trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before him. For he held fast to the Lord, he did not depart from following Him but kept His commandments, which the Lord had commanded. The Lord was with him, he prospered wherever he went. Despite the many accounts of others attempting to overthrow his rule, God blessed Hezekiah with success in conquering his enemies despite seemingly overwhelming odds. He conquered the Philistines and the relentless evil Sennacherib King of Assyria because he prayed to the God of Israel (The Only Living God/ The Man of War) God intervened by sending an angel to destroyed 185,000 Assyrians in one night.

At some point, Sennacherib asked Hezekiah in 2 Kings 18:19 ‘ Then the Assyrians king’s chief of staff told them to give this message to Hezekiah: This is what the great King of Assyria says, what are you trusting in, that makes you so confident. (NLT)

2 Kings 20:1-11

At some point after this Hezekiah became ill and was near death. Isaiah came to Hezekiah in the palace and told him that he must set his house in order, as he will shortly die. Upon hearing this proclamation Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to God and wept bitterly, asking nothing more than he is remembered for his loyalty to God.

The answer of God in verse 5-6: Even before Isaiah left the building, God told him to return and tell Hezekiah that He had heard his prayers and seen his tears and He would heal him and add 15 years to his life. Isaiah returned and put figs on the boil of Hezekiah’s flesh and he was healed.

God did even more than this for Hezekiah. He gave him a sign of his own choosing to know that he would be healed. Through the Prophet Isaiah, God offered Hezekiah a choice of whether he wanted the shadow on the sundial to move forward or backward by ten degrees. Hezekiah reasoned that moving time back would be more difficult, as time always moves forward. Imagine God turning back time for one of us if we asked Him to.

The Greek woman did when she sought Jesus to heal her Daughter that was vexed of the devil, she was able to move the Hand of God to her favour and she received a Timely delivery.

Some lessons we can learn from Hezekiah’s life and the timely delivery he always received from God.

Total Obedience:

As soon as we understand God’s instruction to us, we must show obedience to God’s instructions & commands. If we want timely delivery then we must obey God on time. If we put it off for tomorrow that is not being obedient. (Example of King Saul) let’s be like Hezekiah, he went straightway in prayer with the letter from Sennacherib and again when he was told he was about to die. Deal with all things in a timely and humble way.

God will always be there for us. We may not have Prophet Isaiah, but He has given us another, a greater Helper (The Holy Spirit)

Prayer:

Prayer cannot be underestimated. Like Hezekiah, if we seek God out, He will be found. Do not take matters into your own hands like we sometimes want to do. Lay down your evidence from those against you before God and humbly state your case. He will justify you as long as you have and show total faith and trust in him. Hebrews 4:16 ‘Let us, therefore, come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find Grace to help in thine of need.’

Show God a humble, repentant attitude and heart. This is what pleases Him. Be like Hezekiah and King David, both of whom had passionate humility, deeply feeling sorrow for their inappropriate actions to the very core of their hearts. God’s mercy is always available to people with a sincere and fully repentant attitude.

Let us not let our guard down. Despite the many blessings God gives to us each and every day and the mighty battles He fights for us whether through trials and testing or through vanquishing our enemies, be alert. Not all is as it appears. All that glitters is not gold. In Matthew 10:16 God tells us, Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.’

May God Almighty deliver all His promises to us timely in Jesus mighty name.

May we never be late in life in Jesus mighty name.

The sermon, Wait For It; It Shall Surely Come To Pass, by Pastor (Mrs) Anthonia Obafaiye, was delivered on December 24, 2017.

May God Multiply His Grace And Peace Upon You, by Pastor (Mrs) Anthonia Obafaiye

The month of November 2017 has been declared a month of Grace and Peace multiplied by God Almighty through The Angel of His Church as inspired by the Holy Spirit.

The meaning of grace: The meaning of the word grace (Chen in Hebrew and Charis in Greek) as used in the Scriptures, literally means ‘favour’ to bend or stoop in kindness to another as a superior to an inferior. John 1:14 ‘And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth’.
God’s grace has been termed ‘unmerited favour’ but it is more than an attitude of favour or mercy, that’s why the Bible makes us to understand in Ephesians 2:7-9 ‘For by grace are we saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God. Not by works, lest any man should boast’.

King David was a very good example of someone that enjoyed the grace of God abundantly.
Of the goodness and faithfulness of God over his life, the scenario that stands out for me was when Prophet Samuel was sent to his Father’s (Jesse) house to anoint a New King over Israel in 1 Samuel 16:1-13 (Eliab, Abinadab, Shammah, and the remaining 4 Sons were rejected)
May we not be rejected in Jesus name. May our heads not reject the grace of God in Jesus name.
May heaven remember you on your day of showing (coronation, promotion) in Jesus Mighty name.

The meaning of the word Peace: The Hebrew word for peace is shalom which means soundness in health & well-being. Absence of war, (peace from enemies) peace is not the absence of challenges, that’s why the Bible says in Philippians 4:7 ‘And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus’.
Isaiah 26:3 ‘You will keep in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee’.
The Psalmist said in Psalm 16:8 ‘I have set the Lord always before me, because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved’.
Micah 7:8 ‘Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy, when I fall, I shall arise, when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me’.

A very good example of someone who enjoyed the peace and rest of God was King Solomon the son of King David. 1 Chronicles: 22:9 ‘Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about, for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days’.

1 Kings 5:4 Solomon speaking here: ‘But now the Lord my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent’.

King David his Father was a man of war, but King Solomon did not fight a single war during his reign over Israel, he enjoyed the peace and rest of God. No wonder he was the one God chose to build a temple for Him. God did not allow his Father to build His temple because he said his hands were soiled with blood.

The word multiply means ‘To increase or cause to increase greatly in number or quantity’.

Brethren in this month of November and beyond God want to increase us in His grace and peace,
Isn’t it just what we need right now, a bath in God’s grace and peace?
He wants for us to begin to walk in another realm of his Glory as touching His grace and peace, and so shall it be in Jesus name.
God’s grace and peace is available to you and me. The more we know God, the more familiar we are with His promises, the more our thinking is shaped and saturated by the words of our Lord Jesus, and the more grace and peace will be multiplied to us.
The word of God contains the source of the grace and peace we need. Jesus intends for his words to abide in us, because they are words of life (spirit and life).
Apostle Peter in 2 Peter 1:2 said ‘Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord’.
The verb behind ‘be multiplied’ is used twelve times in the New Testament and always means ‘increase’ move from lesser to greater. There are at least seven important implications in these words (prayer) of Apostle Peter for our lives:

1) God is the only source of Grace and peace and it is to be experienced: If we stand in the unshakeable grace of God (Romans 5:2) and if we are reconciled to God in unchangeable peace (Romans 5:1) then what is multiplied to us is an increased and deepened experience of grace and peace.

2) Grace and peace vary in measure in our lives: Grace and peace are not static; they go up and down in our lives. Hour by hour, day by day, our enjoyment of grace and peace changes. It ebbs and flows. We need to own it and seek continually to receive, new measures for new moments.

3) There is always more grace and peace to be enjoyed: We always need more grace, more peace. Every day, we need new measures of grace and peace for new moments. In this life we will never be able to say, ‘I have arrived’ I have all the grace and peace I can use. That’s why Apostle Paul said in Philippians 3:10 ‘That I may know you’. Philippians 3:12. The Christian life is not static. It is a life of movement, of moving forward not drawing back. Day by day we are growing in grace and peace in Jesus name.

4) Grace and peace are multiplied by God: Grace and peace does not just happen, it comes from God. God gives grace to the humble (1 Peter 5:5). Peace is the fruit of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5::22).

5) Grace and Peace are multiplied by God through human means: God responds to humility with more grace. Humility is a condition of receiving this grace. Of course, humility itself is the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:23). But the fact that ‘God is at work in you and I to do His good pleasure’ (Philippians 2:13) does not lessen our responsibility to ‘to work out our own salvation’ (Philippians 2:12).

6) Grace and peace can be multiplied through prayer
The unique thing about a spoken blessing is that is bi-directional. It is addressed to both Man and God. When we say, ‘The Lord bless you and keep you’ (Numbers 6:24), we are asking the Lord to bless you (prayer is a 2 way traffic: we talk to God and we pause to listen to what He has to say to us). So it is with Peter’s words, ‘May Grace and peace be multiplied (by God) to you. God is being addressed and the church is also being addressed (blessed).
These words are not spoken in vain, Peter speaks them because he believes they matter, and he believes God answers prayers and we believe that He will multiply His Grace and peace over us in Jesus Mighty name.

7) Another means of multiplied Grace and peace is through our study of the word of God

It is interesting that Paul begins every letter with some form of ‘Grace be to you’ and ends every letter with some form of ‘Grace be with you. To you at the beginning and with you at the end.
My understanding of this statement is that, at the beginning of reading and studying the word of God, the Grace and peace of God will come to us and at the end we see ourselves leaving having had an encounter with the Living word of God, we become hearers and doers of the word of God and as we relate with people around us we are able to add value to their lives by impacting unto them what we have learnt in the place of studying to show ourselves approved to God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly diving the word of truth. (2 Timothy 2:15)

Conclusion:
God always has more Grace and more peace for us to experience. He has appointed that we experience it, ‘in the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ’. He has inspired Scriptures to bring us this multiplied Grace and peace. Therefore, to experience these overflowing increases of Grace and peace in our lives, we need to give ourselves to the Law of Liberty which is spirit and life and as we listen and obey God’s word, let us also give ourselves to prayer, for prayer is the Master key that can open doors of solutions to challenges of life and Divine opportunities to us

The sermon, May God Multiply His Grace And Peace Upon You, by Pastor (Mrs) Anthonia OBAFAIYE, was delivered on November 12, 2017

Your Set Time To Be Favoured Has Come, by Pastor (Mrs) Anthonia Obafaiye

Text: Psalm 102:13 – ‘Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion, for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.’
The month of August 2017 has been declared a month of Unhindered Advancement by God Almighty through His prophet as inspired by the Holy Spirit.
The Wikipedia Dictionary defines the word Unhindered as ‘not obstructed, not slowed or blocked or interfered with’.
The word Advancement is defined as ‘the process of promoting a cause or plan; a development or improvement, progress, growth, improvement, advance, expansion, extension, making a headway, etc.’
Isaiah 54: 2-3 says ‘Enlarge the place of thy tent and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations, spare not, lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes’.

Brethren, God Almighty is saying to someone here today that He will arise and show mercy to you, for your set time to be favoured has come.
The set time for you to move forward, for enlargement, for promotion, for unhindered advancement has come in Jesus in Jesus mighty name.
Psalm 30:5 says ‘weeping might endure in the night but joy comes in the morning’. Your time to rejoice has come in Jesus name.
Psalm 23:5-6 says ‘Thou prepareth a table before me in the presence of mine enemies, thou anointed my head with oil, my cup runneth over. Surely goodness & mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever’.
He says he will make you to advance unhindered and there is nothing anyone or the enemy can do about it because He is in charge, who can battle with The Lord of Hosts, no one, He is the matchless God, if He be for us who can be against us, No one.

Brethren God is not a man that He should lie neither is He the son of man that He should repent, when He says a thing, He does it, when he speaks a thing, he makes it good.
He is saying to someone here today, you have stayed long on this mountain move forward, I am with you, do not be afraid, launch out and I will give you unhindered advancement. (Deuteronomy 1:6)
Brethren the spirt of Kadesh Barnea is a spirit that makes a man or woman go around in circles, it is the spirit that caused the children of Israel to walk around in the wilderness for 40 years, a journey that was supposed to take them 40 days, but because they refused to move forward by obeying God’s simple instructions, they walked around the wilderness aimlessly until they all dropped dead in the wilderness. It was only their children (Joshua, Caleb and their descendants) who were the ones that advanced into the promised land because Joshua and Caleb believed in Jehovah and obeyed his instructions to moved forward and Jehovah grant them advancement into the promised land unhindered, victoriously and triumphantly.
The spirit of Kadesh Barnea is the spirit of almost getting there but never getting there, it is not our portion in Jesus name.

Brethren, please come with me to the Book of Genesis 26:1-13 emphasis on verses 12-13.
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundred fold and the Lord blessed him. And the man waxed great and went forward and grew until he became very (exceedingly) great.
Brethren the Bible says in Job 5:22, that at destruction and famine we will laugh.
Job 22:29 ‘When men are cast down then thou shalt say, there is lifting up and he shall save the humble person’.
The weather or seasons do not answer to us or to our situations or circumstances but they answer to the word of God, because God is the Creator of everything seen and unseen.

God advanced Isaac unhindered because he took heed to the instructions and commandments of God, the Bible says he waxed great and went forward and he grew (from glory to glory, unhindered advancement) until he became exceedingly great, so much so, that a whole nation began to envy one man (Genesis 26:16).
May men envy you by reason of what Jehovah will do in your life.
May they come to the light of Jehovah in your life.
May they seek to know and serve Jehovah because of His Glory upon your lives in Jesus name.

Our second example is Joseph the 11th son of Jacob. Please we can read up his account from the Book of Genesis Chapters 38-44. As Bible scholars we must study to show ourselves approved, a workman that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

His story is a very interesting story, an account of how faithfulness in the things of God pays.
His Father Jacob loved him, I believe because he was a son bore to him in his old age by his favourite wife Rachel, he was a son that listened to and obeyed instruction and so Jacob made him a coat of many colours and this caused his Brothers to dis-like him, as if this was not enough he began to tell them the dreams he had regarding how his brothers were bowing to him and this infuriated them and one day they planned to kill him but for the mercies of God, because God had a Divine purpose for his life, He was destined for greatness, he was raised by God to go ahead to preserve lives including that of his family.

He was eventually sold into slavery to a man called Potiphar, an Officer of Pharaoh, Captain of the Guard, an Egyptian; he bought Joseph from the hands of the Ishmaelite’s.
The Bible says in Genesis 39:2-3 ‘- And the Lord was with Joseph and he was a prosperous man. (A slave a prosperous man) and his Master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand, his Master made him the overseer of his whole household.
But one day Potiphar’s wife cast her eyes on Joseph, she made evil advances to him which he rejected and fled from, but the woman accused Joseph of taking advantage of her and he was thrown into prison by his master.
The Bible says Joseph was put in the section of the prison where the King’s prisoners were bound, and God showed him mercy and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison and he put him in charge.

Brethren, one day God Himself arose for the sake of Joseph for his set time to be greatly favoured had come, the day of his showing, pay day as it were and God caused Pharaoh to have a dream that troubled him and all the magicians, soothsayers and astrologers in the land of Egypt could not interpret the dream.
Suddenly the King’s Butler who used to be in the same prison with Joseph remembered that he and the King’s Baker had a dream and Joseph interpreted the dreams and it came to pass as Joseph foretold it.
Pharaoh summoned for Joseph and by the wisdom of God he interpreted the dream of Pharaoh and this lead to his promotion and unhindered advancement.

Suddenly the man that was sentenced to death for no just cause, eventually sold into slavery, became an illegal immigrant, sent to prison for a crime he did not commit, became a Prime Minister in a foreign land, Pharaoh said to him only on this throne, am I greater, no one lifts a finger in Egypt except you command it.

Brethren it is only Jehovah the God of heaven and earth that can give a man un-hindered advancement. In 1 Samuel 2:7-8 ‘The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he bringeth low and lifteth up. He raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth up the beggar from the dung hill, to put them among princes and to make them inherit the throne of glory, for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s and he hath set the world upon them’.

What can stop us from having unhindered advancement?
1. Sin (Potiphar’s Bed)
2. Disobedience
3. The spirit of lukewarm-ness (He is God let him do as He pleases, a place of being in-different, the word of God does not move us or touch us anymore)
4. Doubt/unbelief, a double standard man/woman cannot receive anything from the Lord. Our faith in God must be up-wavering.

Everlasting Father’s Assembly, may the Lord give you of the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth and plenty of corn and wine.
May He cause people to serve you, may He curse everyone that curses you and bless everyone that blesses you in Jesus Mighty name.

Prayer
My Father, My Father by your grace and mercy I will advance un-hindered, I will move forward, I will make progress in you from Glory to Glory in you in Jesus name.

The sermon, Your Set Time To Be Favoured Has Come, by Pastor (Mrs) Anthonia Obafaiye, was delivered on August 13, 2017