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What are the 7 powers of the Holy Spirit?

          The Holy Spirit is not merely a mystical presence but the very breath, wisdom, and power of God working in and through believers. Isaiah 11:2 offers one of the clearest biblical outlines of the Holy Spirit's attributes, describing seven distinct manifestations—often called the seven powers or spirits of the Holy Spirit. These powers were fully embodied in Jesus Christ and are given to believers to live godly and victorious lives. Isaiah 11:2 (KJV)     " And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. "           Let’s look at each power in detail: 1. The Spirit of the Lord           This is the foundational presence of the Holy Spirit—the sovereign power of God that rests upon a person for divine assignment. It represents God’s anointing, approval, and presence.   ...

Life is meant for a divine purpose

  I was going through my family photo album until I came across a picture of a beautiful young damsel. She was so young that I could not recognize her, and the fact that her picture is in the family photo album made me curious to know who she was. I was amazed to find out that the beautiful young teenager was my aunt, but she is so old now that you can not believe she is as beautiful as the one in that picture.    I found out that immediately after a person is born, he starts by embarking on a journey of three important stages, and each of these stages determines whether life lived up to its divine purpose or not.   The stages are: The teenage stage:     You might wonder why I skip the infant or toddler stage of life. But at that stage, the newly birthed life is cared for, nurtured to grow, and protected at all costs because life at that time can not possibly do anything on its own. The parents do not only give birth to life, but they also become the guide ...

Who is the great provider in the Bible?

     Something is happening and that thing is conquering nations by destabilizing their economy because it affected many people's means of livelihood, and caused a high rate of poverty. It is a hard time that even the rich can not help themselves talk more of helping the poor. What is this thing and why is it eating deep into mankind's means of survival on Earth? But in all my findings, I found that it is no other thing but time .    From my little conversations with elderly people concerning this present time of challenges and difficulties everywhere, most of them do say that this present occurrence was not like this during the early 90s. But time has come and gone, and a lot of things which has not been seen or heard before are happening.   At this point, time changed everything in our nation that there is hunger without expectation of how the need will be met. Unknown sicknesses are everywhere without a medical idea of what could be the cause or the cure...

The stone the builders rejected

  Rejection is a painful experience that should not be wished for anyone. Nobody deserves rejection irrespective of who the person is because it is an abominable act to reject the work of God's creation. But there is no doubt that a man came into this world and was rejected and killed by those who were to love and protect Him. He did nothing wrong to warrant the hatred, bitterness, and rejection from His people because His crime was that he was the son of God from the family of an ordinary carpenter. Matthew 13:55-57   His people never believed that God's only begotten son would stoop so low to come out from a poor family since Isaiah spoke so highly of His birth and mission on Earth in Isaiah 7:14; 9:6-7.  So, they expected the messiah to come from a rich and respected family, but they were not God who worked mysteriously.   For no just cause, His background led to His rejection and persecution, but it did not stop Him from living up to God's divine will for Him whi...

Glorifying God in the fire

    Mrs. Onyinye Anene was a devoted Anglican who passed through a lot in life. She had several surgeries that affected her health condition, which made her visit different hospitals and live most of her life on drugs. But in all, she remained thankful and faithful to God regardless of her circumstances. In pain, she was committed and never questioned God but kept on believing Him for His visitation, and in pain, she evangelized, showed love, and became a source of happiness to many.      At that stage in her life, she was passing through the fire of health crises but instead of questioning God, she glorified Him in her fire. She once said, " What am I living for again if I miss the opportunity of seeing Jesus on the last day? ".  She had an undeniable hunger for God even in her fire.     Many people pass through the fire of pain as a result of their circumstance, problem, affliction. Isaiah 24:15: " Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, eve...

Who exactly is Jesus?

  Most people do not care about who you are, whether you are famous or not as far as they do not know exactly who you are. Also, where I come from, people can stop you along the road to ask if you are the son or daughter of a particular person they know probably because you resemble someone who could come from that family.   I was surprised during my conversation with an old friend of mine. He was in his 80s and a Christian too but did not know who Jesus was. His question was, how did God have a son, is He married to have had a son? I was surprised because he goes to church, says a word of prayer in Jesus' name, and still does not know Jesus.   It is quite shameful in Christendom today that the majority of so-called Christians do not know who Jesus is. To them, it is the name of a famous person in Christianity whose name should always be mentioned at all times for things to work out well for them. Some will say I do not know Him but let me call His name because someone el...

Benefits of living by the Word of God

  I have never seen nor heard that God disappoints those who live their daily lives in His word. Because the word is actively working to identify who says it, the purpose why He said it, and the power behind the said word. Isaiah 55:11   Everyone can say a word. It might be a promising, boasting, or curing word to someone, but those words have no benefit to whom it might be said about. People make promises and fail, boast about life, and end in shame and curse to cause others suffering, which proves that there is nothing significant to benefit from the human's word.    From the above scriptural reference, God openly spoke about the efficacy of His word to reveal how realistic it is when living daily upon it. In His word, He guarantees us everything good as we journey to unfold the mystery behind our existence on earth. Is that not a whole lot of benefit?   When we obey and live by following God's word, we benefit from Him because He created the world and everyth...

Ancient of Days meaning

  A boy's encounter with the ancient days   A young little boy who was so passionate about the things of God had a life-changing revelation about the ancient of days. In his dream, a man in white apparel came to him with an invitation to meet someone at the mountaintop. Out of curiosity to know who the person was, he dressed up and followed this strange man carrying his school bag with a bottle of water inside the bag.    On their way to the mountain, he saw beautiful magnificent buildings built for Christian gatherings, but those buildings were from different denominations but were built around the mountain. When they got to the mountaintop, he saw a small abandoned hut, the strange man who led him to the top gave him a seat and left with a word that " Papa will soon join you".      Shortly, an old man dressed in ancient attire walked towards him, his eyes were closed, and he used his walking stick to direct its path to where his seat was. The old man...

Can we see God without holiness?

   Holiness has always been God's standard, pattern, and pathway to eternity with Him in heaven. Omitting from holiness is like omitting from seeing God because holiness is His nature, and there is no other way but the way of holiness.    If someone wants to meet the leaders in any political sector or most of these prominent men, it must be on their terms, and not everyone is permitted to visit them. But we are talking about God, neither is He into politics, and His position is far bigger than that. He does not decline invitations made through prayers, and if He is to be part of anyone's life, His term is for the person to be holy.   We can easily differentiate between God and Satan; we can say that God is everything good while Satan is everything bad. It takes God to be pure to be everything good and Satan to be impure to be everything bad. This means that if everything about God is good and pure, then anyone willing to see Him or to encounter Him must be as go...

Benefits of praying at 12 midnight

  We all already know that there are evil activities that take place at midnight, and our safety lies in the power of our prayers. Since the kingdom of darkness operates at midnight, it is our duty as Christians to also stay awake to wage war against their schemes in our lives, destinies, and everything that concerns us.    The enemy can operate at any time; that is why the word of God urged us to stay vigilant at all times because our enemy, the devil, is never tired of trying to harm us. 1 peter 5:8   We will be discussing the benefits of midnight prayer. Prayer should be part of our daily lifestyle because, in the Bible, we are instructed to pray without season according to 1 Thessalonians 5:17    So, the reason for the midnight prayer is that it is the time evil is at work, and to pray at that time is to avert those evil activities from having any effect on our lives.    Acts 16:22-40 revealed the benefit of midnight prayer when Paul and Silas...

Earnest expectation meaning

  Every human being lives with the expectation of better days ahead. Because everyone looks up to something or someone's manifestation for that actual thing, they hope for it to manifest in their lives.   Romans 8:19 states the fact that the creatures await in anticipation of the manifestation of God's sons. This means that the creatures had the conviction that there is something the sons of God would manifest on would be of a good cause, which is why they patiently waited for the sons' time of manifestation.    Before continuing, who are the sons of God? From my perspective, the sons of God are Christians who know their rights and privileges as children of God. God calls them sons because they are mature and can identify and play their role as sons.     So, the creatures are waiting for the sons of God who have had an encounter with God. Because a son who has divinely met God has what it takes to manifest in a supernatural dimension when he is around ...

How to deal with spiritual wickedness?

     Somewhere in Africa, a man in his 50s or 60s on his way home after his daily pursuit slumped and he woke up not to make full use of his body again, which made him at all times lie helplessly on the ground in pain. He urinates and defecates on his body. His family took him to different hospitals, but all tests conducted on him proved that he was medically okay, but was dying slowly and throughout his remaining days on earth, he never recovered from that unknown illness.   Ephesians 6:12 refers to it as wickedness in the high places. It is the kind of wickedness that takes place spiritually and manifests in the physical world. The custodians of wickedness are demons that will go to any length to cause affliction, pain, and disaster to many unguided souls.    This wickedness is going on all around the world today, and its manifestation has caused so many their health, comfort, and lives.  The few people who knew it was a demonic wickedness against th...

What happens at midnight?

  During the daytime, human beings work for their future and survival on earth, and when it is nightfall, everyone retires to bed to sleep. But there are more to night hours than just sleep because most lives and destinies are either being controlled or manipulated at night.   The night has power because it has darkness. After all, there will not be a night without darkness, and darkness will only show up when it is night, which makes both unattachable from each other.   Many activities take place in the daytime, and out of those activities, ninety-nine percent of them were ordered at midnight. Because at the ungodly hours of the night, people’s efforts are being wasted because the building and destroying of lives actively take place at midnight.   A farmer cultivated his farmland and sowed good seed in Matthew 13:24-30, later he discovered that tares were growing up with the wheat he sowed, and then he knew that his enemy had invaded his farm. This enemy came at mid...

What it means by the will of God?

 Before your conception, it was all on God to decide on what you are to live for, on which part of the world your existence will unlock revival and even in your mother’s womb He chose your gender (created you to be the beautiful female or handsome male child you are).    And at due time you were born as a living, growing, and maturing evidence of His will to humanity which made you a potential gift consisting of divine will which all that you auto to live for, the battle you are to win, the humiliation, rejection, depression, and anxiety you are to victoriously conquer to bring the lasting curse to the dying world waiting for your earnest manifestation are willed in your name even before you were born as a life to live for.    Your constant concern, quest, and pursuit for material possessions and wealth is not God’s will for His functional breath in you because God does not labor for perishable treasures of the world, but deals with what the world can not afford...

What to do when your friend is doing better than you?

  Yes, your mate has indeed passed you, but do you know one thing that remains unsaid is that you are the best version of yourself, and you should not have to compete with others? You are unique in your special way; just wait for the right time and believe in God for the best. Don't allow others' success to bring you down; instead, use it to your advantage.    Overthinking and worrying about who was the first to succeed in life has made many people see themselves as inferior to others. Some out of depression and anxiety committed suicide. To others, the success of their friends made them evil to the extent of taking their friend's life just to stop them from succeeding.      In Genesis 4:1-8, two brothers, Cain and Abel, were on a journey of making a better future for themselves. Luckily for Abel, he got the support of God, which made him successful in his endeavors while his brother Cain got none. And out of jealousy and envy, Cain killed his brother....

What does God's time mean?

 Many great destinies are long forgotten because they are nowhere to be found. So many great gapes left unfilled due to these great destinies were not discovered while their God-ordained beneficiaries rotten in a depression of waiting for their benefactors to fill in the gap for their safety, happiness, and comfort-ability; while the people they entrusted their lives to are in a battle of time.   Since they could not walk on the efficiency of time, their fate became slaves to sluggishness, laziness, and weaknesses that unstable them from meeting up to the time.    The time is far ahead of them when they were timid and unfit to journey with protocol and principle of living to redeem hidden potential in them through working to be refined, and strongly brought up to the frequency of usefulness to their generation to meet up to the need, anticipation of their generation.    Some of them that also went ahead of time ended up in destruction, which caused eternal ...

What to do while fasting and praying?

      Prayer is the only way of communication with God; that is why the Bible in 1 Thessalonians 5:17 instructs us to pray without ceasing.       People mostly engage themselves in fasting and praying because they have supplications to make before God. They fast to subdue the activities or the desires of their flesh for their spirit to communicate to God during their time of prayer. But, the flesh desires so many things that might be a distraction at their place of prayer. So, to put the flesh under control is to engage in fasting.         Before starting praying and fasting, it is biblical to Set-apart :         To fast and pray requires a lot of concentration, time, and consistency in supplications to God. It is very important to first separate from all forms of distraction to focus on knowing what God has to say at that moment.       Most of the fathers in the Bible encountered God in most ...

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